Stop Motion animation Ideas

This short film shows a Stikfa figure being used to create 'lifelke' movement. Stikfas have roughly the same range of joints and movements in their main limbs that we have. This makes them ideal for stop motion animation.
Knocked this film up in 40 minutes using a cheap webcam, edited using Windows movie Maker, titles also added with movie maker and output as a 320 x 240 15fps wmv file
If you want more info, email me!

This caught my eye today - Very big in Japan and usually, where Japan leads, we tend to follow a few years later.
This blotch is a type of 2D (reads vertically and horizontally) barcode. By itself that is nothing new... BUT, there is free software available for almost all cameraphones which can extract the data from a snapshot picture.
You may wonder why this is so revolutionary, but the patch on the left contains 250 characters of information which is directly readable by a computer (which is what your phone is).

Normally the picture would have to be processed using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software which extracts the data... QR Code is translated directly into computer readable information.
Imagine you are shopping and see a coat you like, you take a picture of you wearing it, but if you also take a picture of the 'QR' code on the label. This tells you the size, colour and other information in a format that your phone can store and transmit onwards by bluetooth or other technologies. being a picture, you can also send it in an MMS message, or convert it to text and txt it. There are various radio and tracker technologies available which are better than this.. but none cost almost nothing to implement... What about introducing this on all your pupils project sheets, or devise a hunting game where people had to track down clues by deciphering previous clues stuck to walls and ceilings?

For the record.. this is what the QR code says... and below is the link to generate your own!!

"This is a demo of a QR code generation image. It was created using the Kaywa free online code generator software and allows up to 250 characters (letters and spaces) to be embedded in the code and read by almost any cameraphone or scanner - ajbooker"

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/