The applications of QR Codes is rapidly growing. You may have seen these on TV, drinks cans, magazine ads or even on the side of buildings, but what are they? The two dimensional black and white code can be used by smart phones or QR scanners to reveal a message, a website, a telephone number, vcard or an email address. This makes it a perfect device for a call to action on an advert appealing to the tech-savvy user.
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Guernsey’s largest circulating school magazine has just released its 2010 issue. Grammalogue, the magazine for the Guernsey Grammar School, was designed & produced by Betley Whitehorne. Written by the school’s students, this year’s theme of Liberation was also decided by the school, to celebrate not only the Island’s very real liberation from foreign forces, but also a more modern reflection of Year 13’s departure from school, at the end of the academic year, to a new life as adults.
Grammalogue is printed annually as a perfect bound, glossy magazine. 1,600 copies are distributed throughout the Island. Advertising bookings for next year are now being taken! Read more
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Here are a few more Kinect Hacks showing touch screen is so passé! Zooming around the map is 3D looks very exciting!
Fluid Interfaces at MIT have made Kinect talk with JavaScript in the web browser for some interesting interactions. I like the hand opening and closing for menus and links.
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I was very impressed with this digital projection on the façade of Saks’ flagship store on Fifth Avenue, New York. This was made possible by six state-of-the-art projectors. An accurate map of the building and its features are stored in the computer system to enable the animation to interact with the building. This technology brings a completely new dimension to window displays and I’m sure we will be seeing more use of this in the future.
Microsoft’s Kinect for the XBOX360 is very impressive and people have already hacked it to do all sorts of other things. This experiment from Flight404 shows it being used to marshmallow-man-o-rise a video in real time.
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Leading offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has recently launched its ArtPrize competition in Guernsey, offering budding artists the opportunity to win £1000 cash prize. But time is running out – the deadline for entries is 1st December 2010.
Competition entries can be composed from any medium (photography, canvas painting, digital artwork), as long as the work is in 2D, at a maximum size of A1. For full details, visit mourantozannes.com/artprize
Short-listed entries will be displayed at a special exhibition within Guernsey Airport, where members of the public can vote for their favourite piece. Read more
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Guernsey’s honorary consuls for Germany and France were both involved in a bi-annual conference held at the German Embassy in London last week, 10 November 2010, to participate in discussions about improved co-operation, as well the Franco-British-German triangle.
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