I want to go to Japan for a bunch of reasons but mainly because of how advanced they are technologically. Have you ever even heard of a semacode? Essentially it’s a visual barcode. You take a picture of the Semacode with your cameraphone and the phone processes the image and it gives you the URL for something. For example the image on the left is a semacode for the wikipedia entry on Semacodes. (so meta) The image on the right is the Semacode for The Last Minute.
Semacodes allow you to do really cool/nerdy things like hit up a videobooth in Japan and have the videos beamed to your video cell phone automagically. As seen in this video. I don’t quite understand the pink fluffy fashion accesories in this video… [via]
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4 responses to “Semacodes are JapanAwesome”
That video is hilarious…and yeah, what the hell are those pink things.
These semacodes sound interesting..how did you get one, and what else can you do?
That video is hilarious…and yeah, what the hell are those pink things.
These semacodes sound interesting..how did you get one, and what else can they be used for?
I featured you in this week’s Vlog Soup.
For some reason when I brought this video into Final Cut Pro, the audio didn’t come along with it, so I had to put in some other music.
–Steve
They refer to the ‘pink things’ as the MYSQ ‘rings’ – it’s in fact a device to get the camera moving to you (if I understood it correctly). When you move that MYSQ ring quickly in front of the camera, it picks this up as an instruction to move to you.