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Japan's QR Codes Being Tested in SF

You know those QR codes that Japan has? The ones that look like fancy bar codes that you take a picture of with your cellphone that brings up some bit of info or trivia on the display. Those are being tested in SF right now on 500+ restaurants/shops/businesses reviewed by Citysearch. More »

7:30 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Jason Chen
5,726 views, 27 comments

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Four Crazy Radio Concepts to Celebrate National Inventor's Day

Today is National Inventor's Day, in honor of Thomas Edison, and Giz is going to celebrate it with some designs from the Work In Progress show by students at London's Royal College of Art. There are no less than four concept radios in the show, including this one by Mikael Silvanto, which melds a slide rule with an iPod-esque analog radio. The other three, including one which uses QR codes to hook up graffiti artists with pirate radio stations, are below. More »

7:53 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By AddyDugdale
3,441 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: You can not celebrate Edison with radios. Tesla was responsible for the first wireless broadcast, and he was a true inventor. If you really want to celebrate Edison you should burn radios, kill elephants, and power your whole house on more »