QR-Code

Our jury has finally made up their mind, and the winner is: Joaquín Suárez from Carbajal de la Legua, León (España) for his QR-Tale “Gourmet”.

Gourmet
“Those mushrooms tasted delicious. However, gnomes clothes were a little difficult to digest.”.

Here you can read all the 475 tales we have received.

In behalf of the organization we would like to thank all contestants for their work that has exceeded our expectations once again and thay have shown us that in less than 100 characters and in very little space can fit great stories.

We also want to thank to our blogger friends the amazing word-spreading job thay have done about our contest.
See you next year in the III Edition!!

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Last year, when we had the idea of organizing the First international QR-tales Contest (tales that fit in a qrcode) we couldn’t imagine it would reach a minimum success to consider the possibility of a second edition.

But, a year later, here we are, announcing the second edition of the most freaky contest of the literary scene:

The guilty, is all the people who last year racked one’s brain to write a tale that fits into a qrcode, despite it means contain just 100 characters. The result was 332 tales from more than 15 different countries. To all of them, qr-writers, thanks!

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A few days ago, we were surprised about the great number of ideas going around on internet on the uses of qrcodes in educational environments. Is seems that teachers have recently discovered the eyecathing power of qrcodes and they start using them to liven up learning activities.

So, we decided to write a post about this topic commenting some of the best and most curious proposals about qrcodes pedagogical possibilities. Here they are:

The periodic table of chemical elements

An italian university student designed a curious poster based on the classic periodic table but adding a qrcode to each element. The code containes the complet name of the element, its atomic weight an its density.

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Last november, Pepsi annouced they’re launching of a marketing campain in the United Kingdom based on qrcodes. The codes would be printed on 400 Million cans, and they would drive you into a especially designed for mobiles Pepsi website , offering games, rigtones and wallpapers…

Some months after, through  2D Code Blog, we heard about the last news related this campain. Pepsi signed up the model Kelly Brook to explain what qr-codes are and to promote them on different signs:

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One of the latest big companies we have found out they are using QR-Codes is Havas, one othe largest communication and consultancy groups worldwide. They recently added a QR-Code in their flash intro.

Our point of view…

- Good copy work, but…
“Papel & Pixeles. Quand Gutemberg rencontre MacLuhan” is quite clever, but a  little bit “technology elitist” since it doesn’t tell what the code is anywhere. Read more »

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Qrcode.es bunch moved last 9th Jannuary to Alicante with the assignment to give a lecture on the QR-Codes subject in the Camon Center (a New Technologies Center).

The talk was divided in two parts. First, we tried to explain: what a qrcode is, which was its origin and evolution, how do they work, which are the most common uses and a little ‘bits and pieces” related to this kind of codes.  And the second part was an interactive game, based on qrcodes distributed all around the city.

The video is avalaible on the camon website but only in Spanish.  In case you’re just interested on seeing our faces, it works the same.

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It seems, we’re not the only ones who think qrcodes are the future (this is the moment we could say “Told you so!”… but we won’t…)

The magazine WIRED, one of the most prestigious and influental journal about new technologies, publishes every month an ilustration or photo collage making a some future predictions

The last predition included on the Artifacts from the Future’s Section (Jan 09) was the following:

(Watch carefully the qrcode into HappyMeal packaging)It’s very significant that Wired include a qr-code into its particular view of the future, even if it doesn’t seem a very utopic future…

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Last January 9th we had our first news and published some posts on Zxing (the 2D codes reader hosted at Google Code platform) and we have been following the project that it’s moving on.

Last Friday Daniel Switkin, one of the project responsibles, told us they just launched their own QR-Code generator.

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It’s december, so we’ve thought it’s a good moment to set the classic good intentions for the new year: our ”new year resolutions”.

With this post, we would like to make a purpose for a common good intention for 2009: start new design on the new year thinking, a little bit more, on users with different resolutions, and from differents access devices.

On the following table, just to take one anecdothic case, there’s a distribution of qrcode.es Blog visitors based on their screen resolution.  (Source: Google Analytics)

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Via Mobile Cross Media we found out that a QR-Code shows up as a critical clue in a  CSI New York episode.

Detective Danny Messer does quite a clear statement on  what a QR-Code is:“So the software on the phone converts the code into a web address”.

The good news are that QR are hitting the US and that…  QRs are not a geeks thing anymore!

We wonder why the QR under the tea cup has 4 position squares in stead of 3?. Yeah, I know… I just did a geek comment.

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