I just came across the 2D Sense iPhone barcode reader this morning. I did a search on my wife’s iPhone in the App store for ‘QR Codes’ and it popped right up. (Still no luck with ScanLife!). It has a very clean interface and does a good job at pulling QR Codes off of a computer screen. (I have yet to try it in the wild.)
If you are looking for a way to easily generate QR Codes for websites you visit and you are a Firefox user be sure to check out the Mobile Barcoder 0.1.4 which I wrote about here, a few posts back.
2D barcodes hold a lot of potential for the aid community and I hope to soon see some apps that help to make our job easier. The 2D Sense Platform is a good start.
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Intriguing post. What do you use these bar codes for? Or how does this help you?
In the archives you’ll find a few other posts about 2D barcodes and how they are being used. I have yet to hear news of folks using them in the field for humanitarian purposes. However, the technology is quite new and hasn’t even had a chance to make it into the mainstream here in the States. Let us hope that aid organizations soon pick it up and use it to their advantage. As soon as I hear of it being used in the humanitarian arena I will be sure to write about it!
Don’t get me wrong, based on the wiki link you provided, I can see how the example of inventory control makes sense. This would be a very good inexpensive solution for many supply-chain shops.
I’m just struggling to see how this helps on public web sites when the reader is needed.
I guess I could see some applications for this in a employee web site in which you incorporated a mobile strategy and all the needed components were available to all in the compnay.
Hi Tim,
I’ve put together a 60 second QR code overview for dummies at;
http://www.Cognation.net/QR
It has a number of examples of how ‘you/anyone’ could implement QR codes outside of the standard business card vcard file upload or website upload.
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Dean
@dean Well after I got over being associated with the “Dummies” crowd, (which really didn’t take that long), I checked out your link. Thanks.
Any idea on the saturation level of QR Readers in the US market?