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Clothing: Wikipedia's future?
QR code scarf - A new generation of scarves are being developed that will contain QR codes, a small, bar code-esque block of pixels that, when photographed with a properly equipped camera phone, will show messages, or even websites. The idea of this code being woven into scarves came to Roger Fischer, chief of an internet and mobile phone converging company. He knows people who make scarves with "retro" game symbols - for instance, the Invaders alien - who thought the QR code would match the pattern. Since then, the scarves have sold incredibly well in Japan, as well as the United Kingdom the United States - surprising considering the usual lag when it comes to mobile phone releases. A side project to this - Semapedia - features a different sort of code, rather originally called Semacode, on stickers which can link to Wikipedia pages to whatever it is stuck to. For example, one stuck to a pole on Gravelly Hill Interchange might take you to the Wikipedia page for Spaghetti Junction. One person even made a needlepoint pattern that took you to Pillow.