Thursday, July 19, 2007

Product info via SMS

I've been working on a little project for a few hours...

Wouldn't it be great if you could go into a shop, see a label on the product, type the the id from the label into you phone and press send and back came details of how this product was made, who was responsible etc.



That is kind of what this does. However instead of being Mobile Originated, the request comes from this form. It is hooked up to real product data right now, and if you use the suggested code "PO MB3" it will send details to your mobile phone of all the companies involved that made some fully traceable T-Shirts.

Ignore what comes on screen, this includes some debug info - but wait a few seconds and your phone will receive a text message telling you the names of all the companies involved in producing the T-Shirt and which country they were in. Other codes you can try are 070707 or 777

2 comments:

John Oxton said...

Jon (the other one) just suggested being able to use the camera to scan the bar code as done by http://www.delicious-monster.com/

v8villager said...

Couldn't agree more - see http://v8villager.blogspot.com/2007/04/2d-bar-codes-future.html