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Snappr.net barcode reading
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Posted On: October 20 2008
By: Bryan Partington
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Photography is often used in an artistic way, especially on flickr and in Utata, so that's typically the focus here at the Ink.
This post is about a photography application that has absolutely nothing to do with that.
Snappr.net [iTunes link] is an application for the iPhone that reads barcodes and then presents you with information [pricing and otherwise] about the product whose barcode you've shot.
Here's a YouTube video showing the application in action:
Scanning products is a useful trick in and of itself, letting you know if you're about to overpay for an item in the store, for example.
Due to the increasing availability of mobile phone mounted cameras, photography has never been more ubiquitous, but the applications for photography have remained largely the same. Artistic photography, vacation happysnaps, family remembrances and so on. It's interesting to see photography used as a tool to indirectly pull information out of objects in the real world.
Ask yourself, how many web links have you clicked today? Now imagine photography as a method for converting any object you see around you as a link.
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