Bibliographies? There's an App for that.

A few enterprising undergrads at the University of Waterloo have created a citation app for iPhone and Android that, I think, has the potential to really impact the way we collect citations. To read about exactly how it words, you can read this article. But basically, you just use your phone to scan a book's barcode, and the app will automatically e mail you the citation for that book in a number of different forms (Chicago, APA, etc.). The only problem as far as I can tell is that it focuses completely on books, and not on journal articles, which don't have barcodes.

I think it could be interesting to watch and see if this catches on, and if so, if academic journals will adapt and start adding QR codes to their articles. I, for one, would love to see that happen.