Google Bar Codes

If you happen to visit the most famous web page in the world, you'll find a rather original logo:

That's right,  Google is commemorating the bar code invention with a bar coded logo. :)

Bokode

Tired of looking at bar codes? With this new Bokode you'll no longer have to worry about out-of-focus cameras... In fact, it relies on out-of-focus to work properly.

Besides being much smaller (it's that tiny led in the middle of the other classic barcodes) it holds much more information.

How does it work? It's not a secret: instead of relying in a focused image, the Bokode can only be read by a camera with its focus set in infinity - and it can be read even if you're meters away.

I know it sounds complicated, but the following video will explain it all in a way everyone can understand.



Now we just have to wait and see if it will succeed in this RFID world of ours...