Chevrolet will use QR Codes at SXSW to introduce attendees to the key features of the Camaro, Volt, and Cruze. They are making a fleet of vehicles available for the conference and QR Codes on the hood will resolve to a microsite to learn more about that particular model. Although the one in the press […]
2DCodeMe.com who made the History of Symbology and 2D video has a new website. Visitors can watch their explanatory videos and generate their own free QR Codes for creating personalized items such as T-shirts, Mugs and Decals (full press release).
The Digital Scarborough 2010 team have been at it again. Not content with their previous QR Code on Southbay beach they have had another go and produced this monster (image below).
Just after I posted this I received the following email from one of the builders, Anthony Springall:
On Saturday 6th of March we decided to create […]
The first QR Code in Tunisia is on the cover of this months issue of Tunivisions, the celebrity and glamour magazine. Interestingly it does not decode to a url but to text which when translated into English reads “Do not miss the revolution Tunivisions 2.0″.
We reported on the demise of Snappr last November but now they have been resurrected and incorporated into ShopSavvy.
SCVNGR the location based mobile gaming platform will be building a QR Code game for Google I/O in May. Google I/O is Google’s largest developer event of the year and takes place in San Francisco, CA. SCVNGR recently received a $4M investment from Google Ventures.
Over a year ago Clever Cupcakes of Montreal produced the first QR Code cupcake ever. The image below shows the latest version and how they have evolved in sophistication! The QR Code resolves to the Facebook page for the Montreal Science Center.
This year’s SXSWeek, the eleven days that include SXSW Interactive, SXSW Film, and SXSW Music, takes place in Austin, Texas, from March 10-21. Attendee’s badges will have a photo and a QR Code that decodes to a personal page where delegates can leave a message or access contact information. To coincide with the event Marqr […]
When the Weather Channel displays a QR Code during weather reports every viewer seees the same code. However Japan’s national public broadcasting organization NHK will in the next few days be demonstrating a new technology that they have developed whereby TV owners can register their postal codes and other information within the actual TVs. This […]
Continental Airlines has extended its mobile boarding pass service using QR Codes to London’s Heathrow Airport making it the first carrier to offer paperless boarding passes on nonstop flights from the United Kingdom to the U.S. (Full press release).