Datamatrix Art at LA Gallery

The Scion Installation LA Gallery is hosting an exhibition Insiders, Outsiders, & the Middle which includes a Datamatrix art work by Space Invader, a Parisian street artist.

The Datamatrix code decodes to “THIS IS AN INVASION”.

Inventor’s Job Change

The inventor of the Datamatrix Code Dennis Priddy has been appointed Senior Vice President of Operations at NeoMedia Technologies.

Sydney Design 08 QR Code

The Powerhouse Museum, Australia’s largest and most popular museum, is promoting Sydney Design 08 with the use of QR Codes. The codes are printed in the festival catalogue and direct readers to a ‘hidden’ web page which provides a free festival pass.

QR Commando Patches

John Young has created QR encoded commando patches for sale through his website p8t.ch Each QR code is unique and points to a unique address on John’s server. If you purchase a patch you get a login on the server that enables you to redirect the url anywhere you want, your Facebook account, your […]

Beer Can QR Code

Sapporo Breweries has released a limited quantity of their special premium beer Edelpils. So special that the cans come with their own pouring instructions and a QR code link to further information.

QR Code from Images

You can create QR Codes using any image you upload for the black squares at Hodade. In the image below I used Smileys to create the QR Code for this site. Hodade also have a QR Code generator where the black squares are composed of the QR Code itself.

QR Coded Poetry

Beatriz Mateos writes that while researching for books she found QR codes inside a collection of Spanish poems. Below each of Miguel Armillas’s haikus there is a corresponding QR code which decodes into the haiku itself.

Cigarette Packets with QR Codes

These novelty cigarette packets were recently discovered on tabacoz.com but shortly thereafter the site went down for maintenance. Probably immediately after receiving a letter from Google’s lawyers
Update: 30 July, 2008 Their website has returned but without the potential copyright breaking pictures.

The Worldwide State of the Mobile Web

Nielsen Mobile in a new report Critical Mass, The Worldwide State of the Mobile Web claims that “…mobile Internet is today at a point of sufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction of rapid growth in consumer adoption and, in turn, mobile Internet marketing”.

Datamatrix Coded Surgical Sponge

As a result of major health insurance carriers announcing their intent to stop reimbursing hospitals for costs related to preventable medical errors, NSMC Salem Hospital in Salem, Mass has joined the growing list of healthcare institutions that have adopted a computerized sponge counting system. Every surgical sponge and towel is affixed with a unique Datamatrix […]