QRs For the Socially Inept

Shy customers at Harry's Bar in Singapore have a new way to stalk strike up a convo with someone they have their eye on: QR code tags hung on beer bottles, of course!











Buy the target object of your affection a bottle of brew, hang your customized QR tag over the neck of the bottle and send it their way. Bing bang boom, you're headed to the nearest hotel together. It's SCIENCE.

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Microsoft Finally Willing to Admit the Existence of QR Codes

More than that, actually. While the proprietary Microsoft Tag will continue to exist, our favorite Redmond behemoth has walked back their belief that the closed-system, not-free, Microsoft-created, MS-server-reliant should by rights will rule the 2D world.Because 2012 Windows phones include NFC capability, their MS Tag now includes support for (free, open-source, non-proprietary) QR codes and the

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Experts Agree: Don't Be Dumb About QR Codes

Mashable's got an urgent warning for scanners of QR codes- that code is infected! With a VIRUS! And Kaspersky Lab would like you to know about the malicious malware being distributed via QRs.My two cents: QRs themselves cannot be "infected"- they're a static pattern of black on white which contains a URL, plain text, a phonebook contact or other data expressed in letters, numbers and punctuation.

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Where Did That Amazing Thrift Dress Come From? Scan It & Find Out!

Zachary Sniderman at mashable.com reports on the Oxfam Curiosity Shop, a temporary shop within a London department store that benefitted Oxfam's charity efforts.



Find the perfect swanky item of clothing, scan the QR on the tag, and view a video of the celebrity donor's personal story about when and where they wore it. While the Curiosity Shop closed in April, hopefully we'll see more

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QR Codes and Tattoos: Have I Died & Gone to Heaven?

A tattooed Frenchie named Marco got a marketing QR code inked on his chest. The QR is encoded with a URL, where an animated version of the tattoo sings. HOW AWESOME IS THAT? I'm planning my next tattoo as we speak.

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QRdvark In the News

QRdvark, super-coolest free generator of perfect QR codes* and the awesomest QR-reading Android app in the universe** get an appreciative shoutout from Curtis Finch at Inc. Magazine this month.QRs are finally hitting our shores, folks. QRdvark makes it easy to get your business into the palm of your customers' hands. Literally! If you've never heard of QR or think that apps belong on menus, grab

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Lasers, Waffles and QR Codes

These are a few of my favorite things. New York superdorks NYC Resistor organized an edible QR code competition and waffle batter got the laser treatment. Other foodstuffs included crackers, Chiclets and jello.Amazing video here.story via

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Business FINALLY Discovering the Beauty of QR

Art galleries in Augusta, Georgia get into the QR act with window decals.Italian cheeses- always delicious, and now smart phone-traceable!Wine snobbery goes to a whole 'nother level with QRs on labels.Seattle's Herbfarm restaurant QRs their menus.Middle Tennessee Medical Center's new print ad is QR-tastic.A New Jersey sign maker brilliantly hops on the QR wagon.Beckley, West Virginia tourism

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Nintendo's Japanese 3DS Will Include QR Codes

Mii Studio characters can be converted into a QR code that users can print or post on a website to share their Mii's. Friends then scan the QR with their 3DS camera to retrieve the Mii.via IGNimage via Duck Fluff

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Microsoft Really Really Really Wants You to Use Their Tags. Really.

And they're partnering up all over the place to help you do just that.What you really need is a (proprietary Microsoft) tag that's reliant on (proprietary Microsoft) servers to deliver you content (that's been logged by Microsoft but they probably most likely won't use for anything like intrusive marketing right because why?). And hey, pretty colors!Never mind QR codes- you know, the free

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QRdvark 1.0 now available in Android Market

Download and install QRdvark from the Android Market.QRdvark is a free QR scanning app. It scans QR symbols and reacts appropriately. QRdvark recognizes all common QR formats including URLs, contacts, SMS, email, and location, as well as standard barcode formats and GS1 identification keys."See it. Scan it. See what happens."

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Google and the QR Barcode

Because we are Google's BFF (and huge G1 phone nerds) we love to see the big G dabble in the barcode arts. Offering a new sort of checkout to Google merchants/Android users, a QR barcode is generated live at online ordering, the buyer scans with their Android phone and completes the payment that way.A little convoluted for my taste (okay, a lot convoluted for my taste), and really nowhere near

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QR Barcode From Your Android Phone

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