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The Houston Fence Project, QR Codes
The Houston Fence, located on the corner of Broadway and Houston, is an temporary outdoor installation inspired by QR-code patterns. These bar codes, when scanned with a mobile phone, allow pedestrians to seamlessly connect to online content such as web sites, blogs and others.
More about The Houston Fence Project.
Supermarket of the Future (via BBC News UK)
Nice bit of mobile phone technology and integration going on here… mobile barcodes, mobile barcode payments, mobile messaging, biometric finger print ID, RFID payments, etc… all at a grocery store?
A German supermarket is encouraging customers to scan and ring up their shopping using mobile phones, and check out without the help of a cashier.
It is one of the number of innovations at the new “Future Store” - as Steve Rosenberg discovered when he went along to do his weekly shopping.
RFID Aesthetics
©2008 Ti.mo via Flickr
PingMag takes a closer ‘designer’ look at the appearance of RFID transponders with RFID Aesthetics and More RFID Reading…
Barcode Plantage Visualization Application
Apple Computer barcode-plantage
© Daniel A. Becker 2008
BARCODE PLANTAGE transforms a simple product bar code into a unique tree in the garden of globalisation
One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code?
A simple answer to this question can be found at one of the product databases on the Internet, which are basically huge networks of national code databases.Keying in the 8, 12 or 13 digit figures of a bar code into an international code database, returns information on the manufacturer and the country of origin of the product. Moreover, each bar code is assigned to only one product worldwide; but these individual details are hardly visible to the naked eye.
Via barcode-plantage (Germany)
RISD Art Show for SF Alumni, 6/27
RISD SF ALUMNI, ONE NIGHT STAND
June 27th
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Mina Dresden Gallery
312 Valencia Street (@14th Street)
415.863.8312
I Hope This Gets On A Graphic Design Blog®
©2008 http://www.theamazingshape.co.uk/
Could not resist cross-posting this one from FFFFound…
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Future of Mobile Search Concept
Amazing concepts on mobility and search using a HUD concept and touch screen/surface device… Super impressive and with the fact that OLED technology is getting cheaper and becoming more and more used in devices nowadays, could happen sooner than later….
This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.
Read Future of Internet Search: Mobile version articles #1,#2, #3 and #4 in the series.
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Jonathan Wells, “The champion”
Photo by Kevin Scanlon ©2008
My good friend Jonathan Wells the founder of RES back in the day has recently been featured in the LA Weekly… His new project is called Flux… Nice one JW!
Designers Note: Meg Wells chose that lime green paint color… it is a no-VOC, environmentally friendly paint from Yolocolorhouse.
