Semapedia: Look up the world on Wikipedia

Wouldn't it be nice if you could snap a photo of some landmark--say, the Arc de Triomphe--with your camera phone and get back the Wikipedia article about it? That's the goal of Semapedia: to be the "Physical Wikipedia." It works like this: You enter the address of a Wikipedia article about a landmark and it will give you a semacode graphic that you can print out and stick it to the landmark. Then, anyone with a cameraphone can snap a photo of the semacode and immediately get information about the landmark from Wikipedia. A cool idea, to be sure, but how useful? When printing out a semacode Semapedia makes you swear you won't stick semacodes all over without the permission of the property owner, so it's pretty much guaranteed you won't be able to look up the Arc de Triomphe with it, but perhaps for more minor landmarks with friendly owners it will be more useful.

Tags: cameraphone, semacode, semapedia, wikipedia