Hyperlinks in Printed Books

Ubimark embeds books with two-dimensional codes that work as hyperlinks when photographed. So far there’s just one book available in English, Around the World in 80 Days, with the bar-like codes. See a YouTube demo below.

Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks in Printed Books, by Mary Helen Miller

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8 Comments leave a comment below

  1. Here the same without a barcode…

    Thats more amazing:
    http://www.kooaba.com

    And with many other features

  2. Is that really how Americans pronounce the name Jules Verne?

  3. this is great! actual interactive books!
    but EXCUSE ME!!! did this person DOUBLE TAP on an iPhone app to launch it and then DOUBLE TAPPED AGAIN to scan the code?

  4. That is brilliant!
    …and also like my one year old bachelor project:
    http://www.greenow.de (german)

  5. I think you’d be interested in reading an article in the latest issue of Wired magazine called “Chaos Theory” by Nicholas Carr. It would be the flip side of the coin to this.

    He argues that “the riot of information from the internet shatters our focus and rewires our brain,” while saying the real cause of this is how we read on the internet via hyperlinks.

    kind of interesting stuff

  6. I think you’d be interested in reading an article in the latest issue of Wired magazine called “Chaos Theory” by Nicholas Carr. It would be the flip side of the coin to this.

    He argues that “the riot of information from the internet shatters our focus and rewires our brain,” while saying the real cause of this is how we read on the internet which is via hyperlinks.

    kind of interesting stuff

  7. This is awesome. Hyper links in books will give authors more ways of making money. Advertisers can embed links right in their books. Printed Circuit Board