Bar codes to store video!

• Can a song be 'downloaded' from a bar code printed on paper?
• Researchers at the Edith Cowan University say so. They say that this is possible with mobile phones that are equipped with a camera. When such mobile actually scan the bar code -- Mobile Multi-Colour Composite (MMCC) 2D-Barcode -- that is printed on a paper, they will actually be 'downloading' a video or audio that is stored in the bar code.
• The MMCC is a colour two-dimensional barcode designed for storing high capacity data on printed media and displays, tailor made for camera mobile phone applications. Using the MMCC, the user can retrieve digital content to their camera mobile phone directly from the barcode by capturing an image of the barcode and decoding it on their mobile.
• Confused? The trick appears to be the encoding of information that goes into the MMCC at the time it is printed. Once the mobile phone scans the image, a decoding software that it possesses, can reveal the information. This information can be anything -- voice, video, text, image etc.

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