Barcodes and Bokodes

Today must be MIT day… I keep coming across cool stuff from them!

These days everyone is familiar with barcodes but I remember as a kid being fascinated by these new things that could be read with lasers.  Recently I have been working on an application that is driven by reading barcodes and it’s been a lot of fun to work on.

MIT has an idea of what barcodes in the future might look like.  Rather than having to have special lasers to read the codes, they use ordinary cameras to read the “bokodes”. 

Read about their research here: Barcodes for the Rest of Us

or watch a demo here: Bokode Video