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Friday, April 22, 2011

SuperCool! Barcodas iPhone App Turns Barcodes Codes into Electronic Music | Co.Design

From fastcodesign:

"Leo van der Veen's ingenious app lets you turn any scannable product into an augmented-reality musical instrument.

Those ubiquitous QR codes may get all the trendy tech love these days, but the humbler Universal Product Code -- or barcode, as it's better known -- has some creative life left in it yet. An iPhone app called Barcodas turns any UPC code into a electronic instrument: just scan it with the iPhone's camera, and those black bars jump to musical life like a tiny player piano. Since almost everything on earth has one of these barcodes pasted on it somewhere, you'll never be at a loss for musical inspiration...."

more pics & deets on fastcodesign.com

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