Innovate More Immediacy: Cellphone Extras

Promo for scannerphone ideaYou’re relaxing on the couch or in your easy chair, reading a story about … a politician ranting … a great new song … the world’s worst snorer. Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to move to see or hear a clip? Just hear or see it on your cell. Maybe the story has a number to dial. For each clip. Or, better yet, to download all the clips at once. Then you pick the ones you want. Might have some sort of instant access if cellphone cameras could be used as barcode-readers. Just point at some scanner code, and, voila, you get the clip. Could make newspapers much more immediate and fun … and get people saying to friends and fellow commuters, “Hey, did you see this?”