Txt 4 Tix

Knitting Factory has made it possible for concert-goers to purchase tickets via text message, through a partnership with ShopText. How does it work?

Concertgoers first create an account using their mobile phone, an email address and credit card--and ShopText gives them a unique PIN for future transactions. Once they spot a Knitting Factory concert listing, fans purchase tickets by texting the event's unique show code to the number 467467 (GO-SHOP), using the PIN for payment.

There you have it, if you have texting capabilities, you have mobile ticket purchasing capabilities! So next time you get a Dodgeball message on your phone from a friend at a sold out show at Knitting Factory saying that more tickets got released, you'll be able to purchase one right away - even if you don't have your laptop handy.

We're only left wondering what fees will be applied to each ticket purchase. And purchasing tickets while riding around on your Segway in New York? Why not. This must be the future.

Photo, titled Multitasking, via Natearm's Flickr.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment, News on May 30, 2007 3:41 PM

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Bee Rapture!

> Among a profusion of possibilities, researchers have ruled out cell-phone towers and the "rapture" of bees ascending to heaven - both promulgated by insistent callers and bloggers.

www.philly.com/inquirer/health...

you are just as bad

Wait, did you guys read that article about the phones and the bees?

It's not saying "it's not the cell phones" it's just saying 'we don't know if it's the cell phones, we didn't study it'.

So yeah, the press exaggerated that story, but you're misrepresenting it as well.

ed_Extinct

the spoiler on that segway is hot!

useless and overpaid

apparently it's not the cell phones:

God, I hate the media.

Jen C

apparently it's not the cell phones:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/cell_phones_are.html

technology sucks

I thought cell phones were killing the bees. That hysteria lasted all of one news cycle. When we're all starving at least we'll have our concert tickets.

jay

This is freakin' awesome.

john

wow. pretty cool. what next eh? maybe metrocards will go mobile. that'd be cool. nd nice segway. the girl looks confused, but very pretty. hope she knows that.

Reality Czech

I thought Segways were supposed to be riden in the street, not on the sidewalk. WTF?

pg

too bad the shows at knitting factory sux. hopefully other venues will follow.

David McCaffredy

Wow - that photo makes me want to punch people in the face.

Chantelle / Knitting Factory

The fun part about this is that showgoers will actually *save* money this way; service charges are $1 per order and up to $1.50 per ticket less. Always striving to please those Jetsons, we are.

I can't hear you

You were being sarcastic right?

When can I pay my parking tickets via the RFID chip in my skull?

or procure a prostitute with my ipod?

We NEED these modern conveniences.