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Codebreaker

Who needs a QR code when your phone can just recognize whatever you point it at?

Jeff Horwich Feb 10, 2012

Zurich-based company has developed tech that basically turns anything into its own QR code. See a newspaper article you want to learn more about? Just point your phone at it. Publishers embed essentially invisible codes in their actual content to make it happen. Cool.

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