Connecting Paper and Online Worlds by Cellphone (via New York Times) / Oct 2004

In what is definitely our most exciting media coverage yet, Spotcodes are featured in the New York Times!

When you think of a public information kiosk, your mental picture might include greasy touch screens, broken trackballs and frozen monitors. But researchers at an Intel-financed lab at Cambridge University have developed a way to replace displays like those with something portable, not to mention personal: a cellphone's built-in camera and screen. They and others plan to use commercially available hardware to turn the camera-equipped cellphone into a mouse, remote control, keyboard and more. -- New York Times

Richard Sharp got cited as I wasn't in the department that day when the journalist showed up at Intel Research!

"Instead of having all the hassle of putting things out in the environment that you have to maintain and that people can vandalize, you get a cheap PC, shove it in the back room of your shop and just put posters out front," said Richard Sharp, an Intel researcher here.