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[toran]

Ah. Excellent. The next step towards Shadowrun. I look forward to picking up my commlink thank you.

Also saw some additional stuff about cyberware and VR recently that looked promising.

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[coffman]

The future is now! This stuff is already widespread in Japan - Sony's FeliCa NFC technology is in something like 30 million NTT DoCoMo handsets and it's very commonplae for people to make purchases using it.

The other cool thing that's in common use thanks to DoCoMo pushing it is ToruCa, this image capture technology where you put 2D barcodes on stuff (posters, business cards, magazines, web pages, etc.), which users can take a picture of on their cameraphone, and it's then their phone reads the information encoded in the barcode (usually a URL, which then launches in their browser). A quick way to direct people to view your mobile web site without all the typing.

An example - go to Yahoo! Japan, scroll down and look at the navigation bar on the right - there's a weird looking black and white square there, that's the 2D barcode, so in Japan someone could read this, then pull out their phone and take a picture of it and they'd automatically be directed to the Yahoo! Japan mobile site. I see it in use all the time on people's