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Mobot uses images rather than QR Codes or NFC tags to connect mobile user to marketers

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 in Library

Mobot

If a matrix barcode is not your thing, maybe a Mobot is more to your liking. From the end user perspective, QR Codes and Mobots work similarly – the user snaps a photo of the Mobot using a camera phone and the captured image is sent via the web to retrieve some special offer, product info, or initiate some type of transaction. But the Mobot isn’t a barcode but a realistic image with visual meaning for the user.

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