American Airlines are now offering QR code-based boarding on domestic flights from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The new electronic boarding passes will be available for Los Angeles and John Wayne outbound flights starting on November 17.
“You now have the option to have your boarding pass sent directly to your mobile phone or other mobile device – saving paper and time.”
Click through to read about how to use this new boarding system
If any further indication was needed that QR will be as commonplace as something like Bluetooth has come to be, here’s a lovely consumer twist on what has been a predominantly business focused technology– wearable QR codes.
Touted as ”techfashion” from the folks at www.w-41.com– hoodies, tank tops and sleeveless t’s for the ladies, and similar fare for the lads come with your very own QR code printed on it.
As previously explained on QB, these QR codes can point people anywhere you damn well please. Think myspace profiles, blogs, Facebook pages, etc… the possibilities are endless. Creepily, the codes appear both on the front and BACK of the gear– which gives a whole new term to the concept of ‘Facebook creeping’.
Starting at 35€, thriftier techfashionista’s may as well buy a sharpie and a Hanes wifebeater but if this is the direction both mobile tech and fashion is heading, thrift stores are going to be a head-trip fifteen years down the road.