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Camera Phone Clicks As A Credit Card
from the snap-and-buy dept
A company in Japan has come up with an innovative use of camera phones. While people have talked about using phones to buy things by dialing a phone number, this goes one (or perhaps several) steps further. They let you buy something by taking its picture with a cameraphone, and then sending the image to their server. Basically, it's a proxy for a barcode reader. You snap a picture of the barcode, send it to a special address, and you get billed and the product gets shipped off to you. They point out that the special barcode could be displayed anywhere - on a product, in a magazine, on TV, or even on a website. No idea if it will catch on, but it certainly is a different way to use a camera phone that takes advantage of what a camera phone is good at. It basically lets you "click and buy" from anywhere - and not just the web.
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Amazon will sue
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What About the Price?
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Re: What About the Price?
The Cuecat solution had to be attached to your computer, and just took you to a webpage, which was totally useless.
Anyway, as for pricing, the idea is that they display the price with the barcode. I think there's a lot more to this idea than the Cuecat, though, I don't know if it will catch on.
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