老年人受益新技术

石家庄市东风西路小学 王海涛

老年人受益新技术

石家庄市东风西路小学 王海涛

Help the elder with new technology

As one of China’s most successful IT companies,Tencent has won millions of supporters in its native country with its popular products such as games,QQ and Wechat.Compared with its elder brother QQ,it seems that Wechat is being welcomed by more and more users，especially young people.

Wechat is designed for the mobile and scanning the code is one function that is popular.By scanning the barcodes,we can get information about the goods and receive discount messages from the store owner.It is really helpful for the consumers to get to know the goods.What else can a barcode do?A Japanese company will tell you more.

A Japanese city is keeping track of elderly dementia sufferers by attaching barcodes containing personal information to their fingers and toes,officials say.

A company in Iruma,near Tokyo,has developed a tagging system for members of the public at risk of getting lost.

The 1cm(0.4in)square stickers hold an address,telephone number and unique identity number for each user.

The technology allows police to obtain contact telephone numbers and personal details,simply by scanning the code.

作为中国最成功的一家IT公司，腾讯拥有上亿的用户，它的很多产品，包括游戏、QQ、微信都很受欢迎。和“老大哥”QQ相比，微信的受关注度日益增高，尤其是年轻人。

微信为手机而生，扫码是它很流行的一个功能。通过扫码，我们可以获取商品及打折等信息，这有利于顾客了解产品。除了这些便利，条码还能为我们做些什么？一家日企有了新的发现。

位于日本东京附近的一座城市正在通过在老年痴呆病人的脚趾和手指上贴条形码来对他们进行跟踪定位，以防老人走丢。这些一平方厘米大小的条形码上包含了家庭住址、电话号码、身份证明等个人信息。该技术授权警察通过扫码获取这些个人信息。

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dementia痴呆

barcode条形码；条码技术

Iruma入间，日本城市

Tokyo东京，日本城市

tag贴标签。