As we lead up to the QR Code Hunt next week in New York City where you will havea chance to get ahead a stigma new Ford Fiesta , I want to spell some more about how the contest will work and how QR codes work in universal . Yesterday , we learned that QR code can be programmed to deliver an SMS , to take you to a WWW varlet , to put a sound call , etc . Because they ’re so various , they ’ve been used in a variety of cool ways already .
For instance , during the Lost close , some fans detect the flash of a red QR code during a True rake commercial message . If you stopped your DVR and shift back to the computer code , you could hesitate the frame and run down the code . From there , you would have been carry to an exclusive clip from time of year 3 . ( In fact , if you test the reddish QR codification here , with the blood , it should still exercise ! ) Clothing companies have also been using them in groundbreaking ways . For instance , windowpane shopper at some store have wondered what the piddling square 8 - bit - look doohickey is doing there next to , say , a sure jacket crown or a pair of shoe . Well , if you scan the code , you get a voucher for a discount rate on the point if you take it inside the store on your phone . jolly swell , eh ?
For our QR Hunt , we ’re ask everyone to download a few different QR codification readers and to exercise scanning some codes to get the hang of it before head off to find the car on Tuesday the 21st at 11 am . Some referee respond quicker than others . Some are just evidently cooler than others . So here ’s a test . Scan the code below and see where your phone take you ( it ’s free , do n’t worry , there ’s no catch ! ) . If you wind up at my community engagement Web site where the competition is mentioned on the homepage , well then you ’ve done it correctly .
bide tune for more on QR codes here on the blog and remember to follow one of the following on Twitter for those set forth locations next Tue :
@neatorama
or
@mental_floss
@resila
. If you do n’t use Twitter , no worries , just mark off our web log at exactly 10:30 am for the starting localization nearest you . Oh , and you do n’t have to be from NYC to enter , though you do have to be IN the urban center that day .
