Five minutes
Time goes fast around this corner of the world and I wanted to mention some small thingies about our trip to Japan:
- The temperature in Japanes offices is terrible. In most places we have seen the airco working at 25 degrees, and people are working happily while we sweat our suits.
- It is impossible to find a trash can. For whatever reason it takes minutes to find one. Most of the time I keep the stuff myself during the whole day and drop it in the hotel.
- On the other hand WiFi networks are easy to find, even on board of the Shinkansen, but most of them are closed or you have to pay to use them.
- QR Codes are 2D bar codes. They are printed everywhere in ads, posters, magazines and so on. The idea is that using the camera of your mobile you can take a picture and your mobile will decode and show the information: an internet address, contact details from a person, etc. The idea is quite cool. The most bizarre place where we have found a QR-Code is in the box of the McDonald’s frites. Nevertheless, the macro function of our mobiles’ cameras doesn’t work that well and so far we had little / none success with QR Codes.
Febrero 27th, 2008 at 6:13 #Dean Collins
What reader are you using on your USA phone?
You may find it isn’t ‘vanilla’ qr but japanese language is causing the faulty results.
Check out the business card ‘vcf’ code on my blog and let me know if that works http://www.cognation.net/contact
Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net
Febrero 27th, 2008 at 16:41 #jorgeml
Hello Dean Collins
I don’t have a USA phone, but an European Sony Ericsson. I installed a program called Kaywa Reader, which seems to be the most popular.
Nevertheless, the macro function of the camera doesn’t work nicely, I see a blurry code and the program cannot decode the thing.
Here in Japan most phones can easily, I have seen codes of less than 1cm x 1cm and no problem.
Greetings!!