Phone barcode readers

The trouble with those consumer barcode readers (for printed media consumers to access web material) was that (a) you had to supply them to your customers and (b) you had to expect them to have them with them all the time. But you don't have to worry about that with mobile phones. And mobies with cameras can do the job of reading barcodes now. The Semacode Project aims to allow phone users to "scan" printed material in the real world and then to have the phone's browser taken to the URL. Neomedia's Paperclick applications do something similar. Now, with a bit of bluetooth or infrared you should be able to transfer the URLs to view on a desktop computer if you want to.
(From E-Media Tidbits)