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Cool QR codes make for cashless carwashes

08/31/201608/29/2016 Jesse Collins

A Canadian company providing self-serve wash bays has used quick response codes as an alternative to tokens. A new system of cool QR codes makes it possible for drivers to wash their cars without the need for exact change. At Valet Car Wash in Cambridge, Canada, customers previously needed to use change to buy tokens. While they can still use cash to use the self-service carwash, they now have the choice to use smartphones, too. The quick response codes were chosen due to the ease and affordability of their generation…

QR codes to mark Canadian tombstones in a digital age

03/11/201403/08/2014 Jennifer Goula

Mourning is a process that is making its way to smartphones through the use of quick response codes. Though hardly the first time that QR codes have been seen on grave markers, as this trend has been a slowly growing one around the world, a startup in Canada called Qeepr is hoping that this technology will become much more commonplace and will help mourners to remember their loved ones who have died. This use of quick response codes is quite defining, as mobile technology makes its way more deeply into…

QR codes have now made their way onto Canadian gravestones

12/12/201212/12/2012 Julie Campbell

Quick response codes are making their way onto headstones in countries around the world. Funeral homes across the United States and in Europe have been announcing new features that allow QR codes to be added to grave markers, and this smartphone friendly memorial technique has just become available in Canada. These barcodes give an interactive quality to the headstones that mark a buried individual in a cemetery. These QR codes can be scanned by individuals with smartphones or tablets in order to view a tribute webpage that provides more information…

QR codes central to Royal Canadian Mint’s challenge winner

09/26/201209/26/2012 L. Green

MintWallet won the $50,000 prize with its Windows Phone app. The challenge created by the Royal Canadian Mint was designed in order to encourage the development of an app that will clearly illustrate the advantages of using digital funds over actual cash, and was met with a winner that used QR codes as the heart of its functionality. The winning app, called MintWallet, offers several digital cash transfer opportunities. Among those features are the ability to request money from another party or to send money. It is based on a…

Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board labels product with QR codes

05/06/201205/05/2012 L. Green

Canadian produce marketers take advantage of mobile technology for improved packaging information. Fruit from Ontario will soon be sporting a new kind of packaging feature, as the growers of tender fruit in that Canadian province include the use of QR codes in their packaging, to provide consumers with more information about the products they are purchasing. The Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board has announced the creation and availability of a new website that can be accessed via URL or through a quick response code that is easily scanned with…