Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me)

Re:Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me) by DanHulton on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:37PM (#787650)

Problem you'll run into with scanning bar codes displayed on mobile phones - it won't work. In general, barcode scanners can't scan digital screens for barcodes.

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Re:Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me) by warfangle on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:11PM (#787716)

Unless they don't use typical barcode scanners. I'm thinking photo recognition scanners - they point the camera on their smartphone at the screen of the barcode to be scanned; the app sends the decoded data to the server and gets a success or denied along with ticketholder info (name, etc)....

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Re:Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me) by bdmac97 on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @03:57PM (#787943)

I just had my iPhone "scanned" at MSP at security as my boarding pass... So it's doable.

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