However, I came across this little idea that brings together the scanning properties of smart phones (iPhone, Blackberry, Android phones, etc) and an online database of book titles and publisher details. You probably know how keen I am on QR Codes, and how good useful I think they could be in a library environment (place the code on a shelf or book cover to indicate, and link to, the eBook version, that kind of thing). Bring them together and you get the ability to produce a fully formatted reference for your academic piece of work. Do you get it? It relies on books having a barcode. MORE >>

Here we begin to think not only of voice activated, gestural controlled interfaces, but we also need to start considering biometric recognition systems such as retinal scanning, facial recognition and even directly implanted devices that allow us to control our devices merely by thinking (see the table below). retinal scan learning biometrics 3D non-touch interface Web 2.0 In my previous blog post, the architecture of learning , I outlined some of the key characteristics of learning in a digital age, and started to identify some of the main differences between Learning 1.0 MORE >>

Don’t mistake skimming with scanning, they are different as the 42Explore website explains; Skimming “is used to quickly identify the main ideas of a text. Do you still read all the text, or are you (like me) becoming increasingly prone to skim ahead until something jumps out of the page as a ‘must-read’ section? When you read [.]. MORE >>

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14 million US people scanned a code last year – 2011). I’m not surprised that nearly half of the scans were to get some form or discount, the whole point of the encouraging people to Scan the code is to somehow give them something in return. This Calvin Klein video is a good example of giving the public something, giving them a reason to scan the code – the advert was too ‘raunchy’ for the billboard (deliberate?) so you scan the code to get the explicit video. What’s Black & White and scanned all over? QRCodes/. MORE >>