QR codes on toddler shoes steal the spotlight at Geneva Inventions Show

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When you take into account that other exhibits included a lovemaking couch, that’s quite an achievement. One exhibitor at the Geneva Inventions Show did a great job of featuring the potential of QR codes, this year, as the toddler shoes appeared to draw even more attention than a sofa that could automatically transform into a surface better designed for spur of the moment hanky-panky. The toddler shoes featured quick response codes designed to help bring lost kids home again. There were more than 750 exhibitors at the Geneva Inventions Show…

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QR codes help promote fitness among high school students

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A new program featuring quick response codes is designed to encourage the youth at Mount Stromlo High School. Students at Mount Stromlo High School in Australia are now taking part in a program that uses QR codes to help to encourage them to take on a larger amount of physical activity in their daily lives. This is a novel way to use quick response codes, which are traditionally seen in print advertising. At the school, around 70 students have been walking or riding their bikes to school in order to…

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QR codes enhance “Return of the Native” art exhibit

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Troy Kinney Kelley’s sculptures and paintings use quick response codes to inform and educate. Artist Troy Kinney Kelley from Wichita has brought a number of his sculptures as well as his paintings to the Kemp Center for the Arts’s NorthLight Gallery and QR codes have come along with the “Return of the Native” exhibit that will be running right through May 14. The sculptor and painter is hoping to use several styles and methods to bring a realism to his artwork. That said, the exhibit is designed to bring together…

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QR codes help Arkansas elementary students share history

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A group of classmates are now using quick response codes to bring local history to the world. In Texarkana, Arkansas, a class of students in College Hill Elementary School are working to share the area’s rich history with the rest of the world by way of QR codes that can be scanned by smartphones. The idea is to place the spotlight on the local historic sites that are central to the past of Texarkana. In order to accomplish this, the class has been working on attaching QR codes to the…

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QR codes guide hikers along the Korean Hallasan trail

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The quick response codes are meant to help to inform walkers and keep them safe along the way. Throughout the entire length of the Dullegil Walking Trail located along the forested slopes of Mount Hallasan, there are now one hundred signs featuring QR codes that can be scanned by hikers along the way. The route covers a length of 80 km (about 50 miles), and the signs can be found all along it. At the launch of the QR codes, only 60 kilometers of the trail is covered by the…

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