Amazon Japan Offers Barcode Purchases via Camera Phone

Zode writes "Jesse James Garrett reports that Amazon Mobile Japan customers can purchase a item with their camera phones. "Snap a photo of a product bar code using your cell phone, and Amazon Japan will give you a price check," according to Garrett, relaying from this article in Ketai Watch (Wireless Watch). Here's the English translation from Babelfish."

Re:Available in America...

[physicsphairy]

Actually your post was the 10907649th post. Sorry, I'm afraid you were slow.

Here's a wacky idea:

[Kiyooka]

you could put the price on the bar code tag instead, thereby saving your customers time and energy.

They won't even need a cell phone. Imagine that!

Male information

[Spy Handler]

"In addition, such as CD sales ranking of search keyword ranking and American Amazon the male also information is published."

Why is Amazon publishing my male information?

Re:Available in America...

[tod_miller]

You are not familiar with the constant 'th'

th = 2726912.25

4th = 10907649

10907649th = a really big number.

So in fact he was right. I wonder why so many people claim to have the 2726912.25 post, nothing special about it.

Bezos on TechTV

[shaneh0]

I saw Jeff Bezos on TechTV about a year ago and he talked about this technology as being a precursor to complete optical product recognition.

Essentially, he explained, you could take a picture of anything from the cover of a book to an action figure, mountain bike, sandbox, stereo reciever, sweatshirt or snow mobile and recieve price comparison from Amazons network of retail sites and "shops."

I remember it distinctly because it was the first time i actually felt that a camera on a cell phone wasn't the most idiotic idea I've ever heard.

This was, of course, BEFORE I discovered that women stick their camera-phones down their pants and take pictures, and ACTUALLY POST THEM ON THE INTERNET!

Hmm.. I wonder if Amazon.nl would give you a price comparison of THAT... hmmm... ...not that I would use such a service, even if it existed... ...but if you happen to, you know, come across one.. maybe.. let me know?

Babelfish

[MadFarmAnimalz]

I ran the babelfish translation through a markov generator and was not surprised when the output made more sense than the babelfish translation. Here:

The Amazon Japan ...
did the portable edition of online book store "Amazon.co.jp" service
is started from 2001, but ...
was done attendant upon the efficiency improvement multi-functionality
of carrying. Were added in personal computer edition became purchase
possible. In addition, such as CD sales ranking of search keyword
ranking and American Amazon the male also information is published.
Also navigation and search function of the portable telephone and
can scan the bar-code of the commodity, also the service which with
the same sight the purchase possible commodity it can order directly.
At the same company, when the commodity which order and the friend
of the consumable have likes, when liking to know whether what kind
of related commodity sells in other things, with you say that utilization
when you said is supposed. EZweb, border phone live! Edition, while
looking at the trend of i mode edition, have assumed that it keeps
examining. On the 22nd concert was held inside capital. As for jasper
of Representative President same company,
"those where the commodity is discovered in Amazon with scan search,
become very simple", that appealing the easiness of the same service.
Concerning ... doing
portable edition "with respect to the strategy, as the importance
you consider also Mobile", that it does, "function of personal computer
edition even with Mobile steadily probably becomes possible. On the
one hand, keeps constructing also just Mobile feature ", that you
talked the future enthusiasm. As for access to of portable edition
Amazon.co.jp, if with the same

Re:Bezos on TechTV

[Anonymous Coward]

Linkage please..

Re:Finally a translation that's readable

[Cryptnotic]

Ahh... It's been a while. I remember back when that was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. There was so much great spin-off stuff too, like the clip of the girl who called the LoveLine radio show and said, "my boyfriend has this phrase he wants me to say during sex. It's 'all your base are belong to us'".

Re:Available in America...

[Anonymous Coward]

1th potht!

Re:Bezos on TechTV

[DarkEdgeX]

Yeah really, I won't be convinced until I can see this for myself. Repeatedly. Long into the night. Hopefully with some variety. *cough*