Thursday, 18 April 2024

Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes - Update

Category - Hearing/Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes 

United Kingdom 2010 Great British Railways Stamps with Augmented Reality


Issue date 19 August 2010

Royal Mail has issued a set of 6 Stamps to commemorate the Golden Era of Great Britain Steam Locomotives. 

These stamps are touted to be the world's first "intelligent" stamp and the first to work with image recognition technology (Augmented Reality). Viewing the stamp via a smartphone using "Junaio" (an image recognition application) takes users to a related webpage (Royal Mail Webpage or Channel as it was called) featuring a short film showing Bernard Cribbins reading W.H.Auden's famous poem The Night Mail.

The 6 stamps featured are 

1st Class – LMS Coronation Class Coronation at Euston Station, 1937

1st Class – BR Class 9F – Evening Star at Midsomer Norton, 1962

67p – GWR King Class – King William IV photographed near Teignmouth, 1935

67p – LNER Class A1 – Royal Lancer (location unknown), 1929

97p – SR King Arthur Class – Sir Mador de la Porte at Bournemouth Central, c.1935–39

97p – LMS NCC Class WT – Engine No 2at Larne Harbour, c.1947

Commemorative folder with Stamps


The JUNAIO App was later purchased by Apple to be used in their App Store.

To understand how the stamp worked see the video below



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