Since barcodes are the sign of the devil (must be true, we read it on the interwebs) it's no surprise that everyone wants to replace 'em.
QR codes have been quite popular, allowing people and companies to tag their stuff with colorful decals filled with bits and bytes, and of course
RFID tags are still going strong, but a team of researchers at MIT has come up with something better: Bokode. It's effectively a tiny little retroreflective holograph that is just 3mm wide but, when a camera focused to infinity sweeps across it, the Bokodes become clear and appear much larger, captured in the video below. In this way they can contain "thousands of bits" of data and, interestingly, show positional information too, meaning the camera knows where in 3D space it is in relation to the tag. This, of course, has hundreds of potential applications ranging from grocery shopping to
augmented reality, and should lead to new and exciting ways for scholars to interpret/misinterpret Revelations.
[Via
BBC]
posted July 28th 2009 9:24AM
Because finding barcodes when scanning your stuff isn't hard enougth already?
they could also use bokode for advanced motion tracking and animation overlay because it allow you to calculate the angle in relation to the lens.
Kind of resembles this:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/number%20of%20Fry%252527s%20ass/lazyjay09/FrysAssBBS.jpg
How easy is it to scuff or damage one of these to the point of being illegible? I would think a lot less than it takes to destroy a bar code.
Revelation. No s.
/umm...biblenazi?...
It is, indeed, indistinguishable from magic.