Barcode replacement shown off. Could tiny tags replace barcodes?
A replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode has been outlined by US researchers. Bokodes, as they are known, can hold thousands of times more information than their striped cousins and can be read by a standard mobile phone camera. The 3mm-diameter (0.1 inches), powered tags could be used to encode nutrition information on food packaging or create new devices for playing video games. The work will be shown off at Siggraph, a conference in New Orleans next week.
"We think that our technology will create a new way of tagging," Dr Ankit Mohan, one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers behind the work, told BBC News. Distant reader The Bokodes currently consist of an LED, covered with a tiny mask and a lens. Information is encoded in the light shining through the mask, which varies in brightness depending on which angle it is seen from. "One way of thinking about it is a long-distance barcode.
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Weyenberg Public Library of Mequon-Thiensville has opened a new chapter in the continuing digitalization of public libraries in Wisconsin by being the first to offer the option of checking out Amazon's Kindle 2, a wireless reading device that can hold the digital versions of about 1,500 books. The Kindle 2 weighs about 10 ounces, measures 8 inches by 5.3 inches, is a third of an inch thick and costs about $360.
It was donated to the library by an anonymous patron, Library Director Linda Bendix said. The Weyenberg's Kindle comes loaded with 10 titles, including Jodi Picoult's "Handle with Care," Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Stephen King's "UR," which King wrote specifically for the Kindle. The Weyenberg library, at 11345 N. "Some libraries outside Wisconsin are circulating it," Bendix said. It's too early to tell whether the Mequon library will go that route, she said. A new bestselling book normally has a waiting list of about 10 people, she said.