For many of us the measure of success for the trade show is how much swag we take home. Promotional material, giveaways, business cards, brochures … all to be discarded months later after sitting forgotten in a corner of your office. Avoid the tradeshow-bag black hole with QR Codes while showing a little eco-conscious (and […]
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 […]
A tribute to QR Codes predecessor, the Bar Code, in memory of Norman Joseph Woodland, Sept 6, 1921 – Dec 9, 2012. We pause to honor Norman Joseph Woodland, co-founder of bar code technology, who died Sunday. Woodland was 91 years old. As we mention in our eBook—What are QR Codes?—Woodland and Bernard Silver were […]
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 […]
