And below is a screenshot of the mobile tea overview. You will find most teas so far in the Oolong overview (all texts in german). Naturally there are many more teas you can find at the Shui Tang teahouse. Texts for single teas will be added and updated continually. An all teas come always with a QR Code.
Some people seem to have had difficulties downloading the Kaywa Reader for the 7610 Supernova. It seems this phone has a problem with the jad file, when downloading directly via mobile phone.
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Peeking through the Sudare at Shui Tang, Image: tee.kaywa.com
The same as in the Teahouse/Shop Shui Tang at Spiegelgasse is getting more and more complete, so does the Extended Packaging of Shui Tang.
The printed packaging finally arrived and we are very happy with the results. The photo below gives only an idea how it looks, as the colors are rendered too bright.
The sticker with the QR Code (which will be applied on the above packaging) can be seen below, while we finished yesterday the mobile version for Symbian devices. So here is the QR Code (click the image below to get a bigger picture) to access information about the Qilan Oolong.
And here is what you can expect when scanning the QR Code:
Chragi from #atelier359 just sent me the mockup for the invitation card of Shui Tang. I think it looks stunning and I had an urge to publish it. It will naturally come with a QR Code.
USE CASE #1: QR Codes on a Webpage in general and QR Codes on DokoDare in particular
Why a QR Code on a webpage?
Many people say, that they don't understand why on earth someone should put a QR Code on a website as you are already have it before your eyes.
Well, in general, you are not glued to your PC screen 24 hours and so it makes a lot of sense to scan the QR Code and take the webpage with you when you are leaving the "big screen". Normally you also have more idle time when on the move than before a PC, so a QR Code helps you also to bookmark interesting things which cannot be read right now - as you are probably working.
Also the webpage and the mobile version can significantly diverge in what they offer as both screens have different advantages and disadvantages.
In the case of DokoDare this is even more true. The normal use case of going somewhere unknown was to 1) print the address with phone numbers and all 2) to go to map service 3) to print the map and note down phone numbers 4) to finally head to the place.
Now you find a place on DokoDare (example (web version not yet open to the public)), you scan the QR Code and you have everything with you - address, phone number, map, additional information. And even better, you have not only the place you are going to, but you also see nearby places (like nearest bus or tram station, a café where to wait when you are too early etc.)
Let me know if that has helped you or if you have something to add to it in the comments.
2) During #IranElection on Twitter, this idea of Kufi and QR Codes reemerges in my mind 12:49 AM June 15, 2009
@MAMK idea: QR codes to facilitate planned protests. => in England they got around the perimeter rule this way. We'll see and watch 1:10 AM June 15, 2009
Iranian people turn digital smugglers in battle for information - Guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/2M6sk - Simple Text QR Code could help
After having seen the Kufi on Khamenei's site, I remembered my Kufi post. And I think that this similarity could be well used.
4:43 AM June 16 , 2009
@MAMK @rafik @AugmentedAdvert - Addendum : (old post) Similarity of Kufi and QR Code http://mobile.kaywa.com/p777 and http://bit.ly/mQZtW
The Dubai QR Code meme comes full cercle. Still I continue to think that the combination of Kufi and QR Code is what would be even more interesting. Especially as the QR Code could help to be scanned by people who cannot read well. Somehow I also think about the cathedrals with their paintings which were there for the majority of people who could neither read nor understand latin. And somehow, in another way, this persists in Iran with the use of farsi (persian) and arabic. So imagine, you could either read the Kufi or scan the QR Code and hear the text in your language.
As you can see this post got a bit long and I apologize if not everything is clear and I mix too many things. To make it easy, I continue to call it the Dubai QR Code meme, but it brings up much more questions than this meme's name could express.
Our research in rural India for our Mobile Literacy project identified the task of entering and saving a contact information as the single most challenging tasks for non-literate users to perform. Yet it was a task identified as one of the most beneficial aspects of owing a mobile device.
[...] We then began to explore creative ways to make text and numeric information physical. Our question became: How might we make a physical representation of person’s name and phone number?
During our ideation sessions we tossed around a lot of ideas about tokens. When we looked across the mobile landscape, we realized QR codes and the QR code reader applications on many phones would be a viable solution for our text entry problem.
