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QR codes makes card playing a whole new experience

02/23/2012 L. Green

The International Toy Fair held in New York was the venue for the launch of a new interesting variation on the way that QR codes can be used on playing cards. Though the barcodes on playing cards aren’t anything new, the company that manufactures the well known Bicycle brand playing cards, the United States Playing Card Co., has come up with a whole new game style to be used with the “Jacked Up” decks. This involves decks in which some of the cards have QR codes printed on them, for…

Organic foods go two dimensional!

01/14/2011 Jesse Collins

QR codes have something of a trendy persona. They have been put to use by a number of advertising campaign targeting the 18 to 25 crowd, honing in on the “hip” crowd. Though still in its relative infancy, QR code technology is asserting itself as the coolest thing to happen to marketing since viral campaigns were in vogue. As such, anything emblazoned with the 2D symbol is seen as cutting edge, a fact that is not going unnoticed by many business owners. Last year, the Port Townsend Food Co-op, a…