Your phone is becoming a digital remote control - just point it at stuff to get info about it sent to your phone.
Here's one of the recent Google Android open source winners who invented a new twist on reading bar codes with your camera phone (though his video example of scanning a CD bar code seems a little antiquated. I mean, who buys CD's anymore? Sheeesh.). This takes the mobile bar code revolution happening in Japan one step further. A handful of start-ups are even working on technology that recognizes the shapes of objects making bar codes obsolete.
It's really fun to see all the innovations taking place with mobile technology. Check out BioWallet, another Android winner.
Here's one of the recent Google Android open source winners who invented a new twist on reading bar codes with your camera phone (though his video example of scanning a CD bar code seems a little antiquated. I mean, who buys CD's anymore? Sheeesh.). This takes the mobile bar code revolution happening in Japan one step further. A handful of start-ups are even working on technology that recognizes the shapes of objects making bar codes obsolete.
It's really fun to see all the innovations taking place with mobile technology. Check out BioWallet, another Android winner.
