April 2, 2007

Cellphones 'Talk' With New Bar Codes on Everyday Objects

New technology, already in use in parts of Asia but still in development in the United States, allows the phones to connect everyday objects with the Internet. In their new incarnation, cellphones become a sort of digital remote control, as one CBS executive put it. With a wave, the phone can read encoded information on everyday objects and translate that into videos, pictures or text files on its screen.

New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your Cellphone, New York Times, April 1, 2007.