I think I'm turning Japanese..... I really think so

What's this Crazy gal at??

Well she is recieving information from a poster, in Shinjuku station.
It's an application for your mobile called Mobile Suica.
Here's the Wikipedia explanation of what Mobile-Suica is.

"Mobile Suica (モバイルSuica, Mobairu Suika^?) is a service for Osaifu Keitai mobile phones, first released on January 28, 2006 by NTT DoCoMo and au in Japan. Suica is a prepaid rechargeable contactless smart card mainly used to pay for fares on the JR East railway network.

Just like traditional Suica cards, Mobile Suica can also be charged when the remaining balance gets low. Other features supported by the mobile phone includes the ability to review past Suica transactions via the mobile's display. Suica uses Sony's FeliCa chip for its main functionalities. Mobile Suica interacts with the FeliCa chip using Java technology."

So now we know!

This application is an add on of Mobile-Suica called SuiPo, which means Suica + Poster. Very smart indeed.



So basically you just move your mobile past the scanners on the poster and information about the poster is sent to your phone, cool! Handy for films and stuff I guess. You can probably get the cinema times or if it was a poster for a gig I'd imagine you could get ticket prices and dates thus leaving the poster free for more art than info.


Information Taken from here
Images Taken fromhere
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This site has more info about SuiPo but its in Japanese so Good Luck!

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