Energy bills to get QR codes. Yay! (Wired UK)
All energy bills in the UK will soon come with added QR codes to allow people to get instant cross-market price comparisons.
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Bitcoin theft via aired QR codes
A news reporter for Bloomberg, after doing a piece about Bitcoin, gave his co-hosts gift vouchers in the popular cryptocurrency. The mistake was revealing the QR codes which contain enough information for the bitcoins to be taken – comparable to waving your bank account details around.
QR codes, enabling information to be snapped easily, even if it is the contents of your digital wallet.
Wounded QR code
A curious engineer carried out 31 different kinds and levels of image distortion to QR codes and tested if the codes could still be read.
Some good general technical information on QR codes and the extent to which you can deform them whilst still being readable. Important if you are making a designer QR code. Overall QR codes are pretty hardy and resistant to data corruption.
Scientist use QR Codes to protect the worlds data for millennia.
Optical or magnetic storage can prove unreliable over these kind of extended time periods, so scientists as part of the ‘The Human Document Project’ are trying to create something informationally dense to preserve historical data and durable enough to survive almost indefinitely. [MIT Detailed overview]
Open Project by Google
An impressive blend of a Nokia Photobeamer type service and augmented reality type behaviour. Open Project passes screens from your mobile device to an external display as if being projected. We’re one step closer to a Tony Stark type lab.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Malicious QR Code Intercepts Google Glass Data
Nice approach from Lookout: Hacking the Internet of Things for Good. From Mashable:
Google has fixed a security issue that enabled hackers to intercept data from Google Glass and even completely take over control over the device. The attack was based on Glass’ ability to automatically recognize QR codes, which can tell it to connect to a Wi-Fi network.
Not going to be a big problem for most of us. But as we know Google Glass uses QR codes to setup and can use codes to connect to wifi networks. QR Codes: simplifying connectivity, sometimes even malicious ones. Google has since issued a fix.
Google has experience in this field having had a QR code based temporary login service in the past.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
QRmovie puts codes right into the onscreen action.
Codes can be animated right into the moving footage. Big leap forward in the integration of QR codes into the marketing message. Click through to the source for more videos or go to nerdindustries.com to find out more.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)