Lion Nathan USA (owned by Lion Nathan, Australasia’s largest food and beverage company) will be using QR Code bottle neck tags on six of their wine imports. Each wine will have a unique QR Code which resolves to a mobile site (example) with tasting notes, reviews, a video tour of the winery and the opportunity […]
The chart below is taken from Google Insights for Search and shows the number of searches that have been done in the United States for ‘QR Code’, relative to the total number of searches done on Google, from 2004 to August 2010. The data is normalised and presented on a scale from 0-100.
A series of QR Code ads (image below) in the WSJ, Time and Smart Money record a historic presidential campaign of fifty years ago. At that time John F. Kennedy was on the campaign trail which ended when he was sworn in as the 35th President at noon on January 20, 1961. A JFK Library […]
The Port Townsend, New Hampshire and the Edmonds International film festivals are using QR Codes in newspaper ads, posters (image below), passes, program guides (image below), tickets and T-shirts. The QR codes link to scheduling information, trailers, blog posts and the option to purchase merchandise. I have not seen such a comprehensive use of QR […]
Mashable has a post titled “HOW TO: Create and Deploy Your Own QR Codes” which is supposed to be a step-by-step guide to creating a QR Code. There is nothing about deployment and the final step of the guide produces a QR Code (image below) that resolves as “Congratulations on your first child! Here’s a […]
The MMD Research Institute has published the results of a survey of 754 Japanese housewives (their word not mine!) that included a question about QR Code usage. 90% of the women had scanned a QR Code with 71% having done so from a magazine.
Stuart Memo has created an excellent QR code Chrome browser extension that will display a QR code containing the URL of the page you’re currently on. Also it will display a QR code containing a selected piece of text in the browser and if the text contains a phone number or email address the generator […]
Twitterer f8sd8s has created 64 Twitter accounts each with a different avatar comprised of a piece of QR Code. When the 64 icons are arranged correctly the complete QR Code can be resolved. I haven’t tried the puzzle but f8sd8 says the QR Code resolves to this YouTube Channel.
Walkers around Hermosa Beach, CA are picking up $25,000 QR Coded bills (image below). It’s part of a promotion for Mafia Wars Las Vegas, the fifth playable city in this popular multiplayer browser game. The QR Code resolves to a non-mobilized site and the chance to win a grand prize of $25,000 or one of […]
CCTV surveillance is a fact of life nowadays for those living in large cities but the surveyors have been getting a surprise in Berlin. QR Code mosaic tiles applied with strong adhesive have been placed where they can be seen by the cameras and the pedestrians. The QR Codes when scanned read “please smile you’re […]