Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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QR Codes for Hardlink Promotion (and a Scifaiku)

siege tipped me to QR codes, designs that can be scanned by a cellphone camera to bring up a website.  There is an online generator for making your own QR.  This is one type of hardlink, a physical world hyperlink.

I immediately thought it would be cool to use this as a temporary tattoo. Turns out there are companies that sell printer paper for this purpose, so it should be possible to print a QR code on that and transfer it to skin. Point your cellphone camera at the body art and presto! Website!

Then I thought of a scifaiku to go with the image.  I made a QR for the Poetry Fishbowl Landing Page, but I just could not get the stupid thing to load with this post.  Well, here is the poem anyhow:

 
Aim your camera here.
Wow, this used to be SF!
I love the future.
Tags: art, cyberspace theory, poem, poetry, science fiction, writing
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  • 3 comments
mdlbear

mdlbear

April 29 2010, 15:24:19 UTC 11 years ago

Cool! Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_hyperlinking and http://yellowarrow.net/v3/about.html
siege

siege

May 4 2010, 02:33:00 UTC 11 years ago

You have to save the image off that site to your own location, just as you do with the photos you share; the QR Codes there are dynamically generated every time and thus hosting them would be a nightmare.

Also, although this instruction is included with iron-on and temp-tattoo papers, remember to reverse the image (flip left to right) you want to transfer before you print it out; otherwise you'll end up with a backwards tattoo. And I don't think QR Codes are guaranteed to read backward.
ysabetwordsmith

Good point!

ysabetwordsmith

May 4 2010, 03:01:55 UTC 11 years ago

With my luck I'd mess up the flipping. I could get someone else to do it, though.