Another year has gone the way of the Dodo bird, but QR Code naysayers may be surprised that QR Codes have not gone extinct. On the contrary, these “bar codes on steroids” are still going strong! By turns both adored and reviled, the blocky, information-rich quick response (QR) images are still an easy, low-cost way […]
Click here for End of the World, Part 1 Why, oh why didn’t you listen to your mother? She told you to follow a career in science. If you had, you may have been one of the lucky six astronauts currently circling the earth in the International Space Station right now. And you know what […]
Way back in 2000, or was it 1999? Locals can’t really remember. But it’s been a few years already since the time that doomsday theorists, so called “esoterics,” or mystic believers, last descended on the sleepy French village of Bugarach (population 189). These trekkers believe that the local mountain, Pic de Bugarach, is the ideal […]
Oh, how we love a good rivalry. – The Hatfields vs. The McCoys (McCoy’s pig wandered over to Hatfield’s property; Hatfields claimed the hog as their own; 13 years later two Hatfields and 8 McCoys were dead in this legendary feud) – Ali vs. Frasier (Three fights: “The Fight of the Century,” 1971; “the Second […]
It was just a matter of time before registering to vote became as simple as whipping out your cellphone. Rock the Vote set a goal of 1.5 million registrations ahead of the November 2012 presidential elections. They used a few novel approaches using QR codes. One solution was a t-shirt design featuring a QR code […]
A quick multiple choice quiz: What is special about the number 60,000? (please select the most correct answer) 60,000 is… A. The number of miles of blood vessels in the human body, enough to wrap around the world 2.5 times. B. The number of ratings that QR Droid has received since launching in December 2010. […]
