Digital communication meets snail mail
The mail service may epitomise "old world" communications but the Royal Mail thinks it has found a way to bring the humble paper stamp into the internet age.
Royal Mail has launched what it calls "intelligent stamps": stamps that, when viewed by a smartphone camera, will take the device's browser to a particular website.
The stamps work with the Junaio app, one of the latest in a growing number of augmented reality apps for smartphones, where the app uses the phone's built-in camera to recognise real world objects or places and then retrieve related digital information.
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