Semacode QRCode needlepoint scans as "pillow"

Flickr user Tikaro made this needlepoint ~~semacode~~ QR code (a kind of two-dimensional barcode) -- it scans to the Semapedia URL for "pillow". Link (via Wonderland)

(Image: Downsized crop from P1060816.JPG, appearing in tikaro's Flickr stream, used here for commentary, under the aegis of fair use)

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Jun-Dai

FYI, that’s not semacode, that’s QR code. Semacode looks like
this.
Markus

The swiss company KAYWA gives you the opportunity to make QR-Codes for own homepage(registration necessary). They also provide a reader for mobile phones.

http://reader.kaywa.com/en
tikaro

You’re absolutely right, Jun-dai. I should be more careful how I use my language. Semapedia uses QRcode for its machine-readable URLs, not semacode. So it’s a QRcode barcode, leading to a semapedia link.
whoisstan

Just to explain semapedia a bit.

Semapedias (www.semapedia.org) goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the wikipedia to the relevant place in physical space. We use 2D Barcodes and mobile phones to establish that “physical hyperlink” connection. Semapedia allows everybody to create such hyperlinks.