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QR Codes in the Garden

Roger — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:23:11 +0000

QR Codes are turning up in the most unlikely places. The Friends of Walkden Gardens have posted one on the notice board at the garden entrance. It leads to their mobile site which provides information on the ‘Friends’ and many details of the garden including plants of interest, history and events.

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QR Codes in the Garden

Japan Airlines McDonald’s Promotion

Roger — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:56:58 +0000

Japan Airlines (JAL) has teamed up with McDonald’s in a special promotion. Until the end of May ‘08 users of JAL domestic flights using the ‘Quic’ service will receive a gift coupon that can be used in McDonald’s. The ‘Quic’ Touch and Go service uses QR encoded downloadable boarding passes for automated airport check-in machines.

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Japan Airlines McDonald's Promotion

Robot Child Minder Reads QR Code

Roger — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:27:32 +0000

A ‘Kid’s Club’ at the Japanese Aeon shopping mall has employed the services of a QR Code reading robot. The robot reads the QR Code embedded in the Kid’s Club membership badges and remembers their names and birthdays. Robot Watch reports that the robot also speaks, has a video projector mounted in its left eye and can communicate via mobile phone.

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Robot Child Minder Reads QR Code

BookCrossing with DataMatrix Code

Roger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:26:47 +0000

BookCrossing is leaving a book in a public place so it can be picked up and read by someone else, they in turn do the same. Every book has a unique BookCrossing ID number and the complete history of any given book’s travels is recorded by readers and may be viewed on bookcrossing.com.

Now an enterprising Finnish BookCrossing participant Miia Ranta has started applying BookCrossing ID numbers in datamatrix code to her BookCrossing books.

When this was suggested recently on the BookCrossing forums a couple of months ago, all kinds of objections were raised. Fortunately the objections can be easily overcome and enthusiasts may soon be able to scan the BookCrossing ID with their mobile and view the books history right there at the cafe table.

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BookCrossing with DataMatrix Code

QR Code from The Grave

Roger — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:25:22 +0000

Ishinokoe in Japanese means ‘voice of stone’ and a company with this name based in Kofu City, Japan specializes in stone tombstones. A Press Release of theirs announces a new product ‘Kuyou no mado’ which are commemoration windows with QR Codes. The idea is that when the doors of the tombstone are open a QR code is visible. When decoded it leads to a webpage on which there are images and comments in memory of the deceased. The QR code in the picture decodes as http://d-qr.net/dqrcgi/r.aspx?r=8r13eci7.

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QR Code from The Grave

BBC Logo in QR Code

Roger — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:11:17 +0000

Duncan Robertson is the software engineer that worked on the QR codes for BBC Programmes Beta. He now reports on work in progress on incorporating the BBC logo into QR codes. This is made possible due to error correction code written into the QR Code encoder that allows up to 30% deterioration of a QR Code while remaining readable. The QR code below decodes as http://bbc.co.uk/programmes

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BBC Logo in QR Code

QR Code Saves Your Fingers (Possibly!)

Roger — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:54:13 +0000

The people over at Tibo Software produce some nice game software but I am not sure what to make of their latest output. They say “Quetim was developed by reason of laziness of its authors to write messages on 9 keys” and it may well be true.

The way it works is that you visit quetim.com and use your computer keyboard to write the SMS text, that you want to send, into the textbox provided. Your text will then be encoded into a QR Code.

Simply capture the image of the QR Code with your mobile phone camera and if you have the free Quetim application installed it will decode the QR Code and automatically insert the extracted text into the SMS message body ready to send.

You can download Quetim for your Java J2ME mobile device with your mobile phone browser from http://www.quetim.com/mobile/ or download the JAR file to your computer from here.

Tibo Software claim that Quetim is faster than Multi-tap, T9 Text Input or iTap and of course it works with any computer or browser.

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QR Code Saves Your Fingers (Possibly!)

QR Cooking

Roger — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:07:36 +0000

A Japanese website devoted to home cooking and healthy, easy to prepare dishes provides the calories and cost for those on a diet or budget. Each dish has a QR code which shows the ingredients and which you can refer to while shopping in the supermarket. Also you can refer to the method of preparation while cooking in the kitchen. (Thank you for the picture Kupa)

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QR Cooking

Show me your QR code honey!

Roger — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:03:52 +0000

Rod Yates owns Australian Honey Ltd., based in Beecroft, NSW Australia. His honey has won awards at food shows all over the world and he is now exporting his honey to Japan. Rod’s packing boxes now have a QR code label with data certifying the country of origin and confirming the honey is not blended with other honeys. If you are exporting to Japan a QR code label is a smart move!

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Instant Voucher System for Newsagents

Roger — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:27:20 +0000

2nDimension is rolling out its Instant Voucher System (IVS) with up to 4500 news retailers in the north west of England.

Nowadays every newspaper seems to have a voucher of some kind and newsagents spend a lot of time collecting them, itemizing them and sending them off for payment.

IVS uses a mobile phone’s camera and some patented software to scan vouchers that will now have a barcode.

When a customer brings a voucher into the shop, the ‘phone will read the barcode, check its validity against 2D’s live database and inform the retailer of its obligation to the customer. The retailer will then be paid promptly and directly into his bank account and the voucher redemption is registered.

The scanning takes less than 3 seconds and only requires a mobile telephone signal to work. It is extremely simple to use and all scans are traceable by both the retailer and 2nDimension.

David Atkins of 2nDimension says the 2d barcodes that are used are proprietary but “..we are able to read standard 2D barcodes with a software tweak”.

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Instant Voucher System for Newsagents