{"id":534,"date":"2013-01-07T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=534"},"modified":"2013-01-07T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:04:29","slug":"built-in-qrbarcode-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/built-in-qrbarcode-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"Built-in QR\/Barcode Scanning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish Apple (and Android) would build <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QR_code\">QR code<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barcode\">barcode<\/a>\u00a0scanning into all phones, either in the camera app or as a dedicated scanning app.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-535\" alt=\"qrcode.10740790\" src=\"http:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/qrcode.107407901.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QR codes are <em>so<\/em> helpful for connecting the physical and digital worlds: \u00a0imagine scanning the bottom of a product to see the current owner&#8217;s manual, or to get reorder information. \u00a0Or scanning codes at a museum or park to get more information about an exhibit. \u00a0Or scanning the &#8220;missed delivery&#8221; door tag that FedEx left, to figure out your delivery options.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CueCat\">new idea<\/a>, but for the first time we&#8217;ve all got scanners in our pocket. \u00a0However, QR codes are still a little geeky: \u00a0you need to know what they are, and install an scanning app. \u00a0It&#8217;s a chicken-and-egg problem, and including scanning as a built-in phone feature would go a <em>long<\/em> way to seeding things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish Apple (and Android) would build QR code\/barcode\u00a0scanning into all phones, either in the camera app or as a dedicated scanning app. QR codes are so helpful for connecting the physical and digital worlds: \u00a0imagine scanning the bottom of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/built-in-qrbarcode-scanning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}