Porcupine_I on 21 September 2015
| Platina said: So this new device would read the barcode on the Amiibo rather than use NFC technology? A bit weird but I guess with a barcode reader, you can do a lot more than with just NFC (ie QR codes) |
First and foremost it would make manufacturing Amiibos cheaper, because you could get rid of the chip
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
