PSFK spotted tiled street art in the style of Invader in SoHo recently.

We spotted this ad for the movie District 9 on our way out of the subway station this morning. It’s nice to see QR codes being used, but we wonder how safe and effective it is to have people stop and snap QR codes in high traffic areas at the top of stairs. And how many people actually have QR readers on their mobiles?
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The MIT Media Lab has developed a new type of data tag called Bokode, which has the capacity to hold thousands of times more information than the traditional barcode. The name is a combination of barcode, and the Japanese term Bokeh, which refers to the blurred area around a photographer’s point of focus.
Bokodes are circular in shape and much smaller than a barcode -about 3mm wide- and consist of an LED along with a mask and lens. Information is stored in the light that shines through the mask, and can be read by taking an out of focus photo from [...]

The QR code, used to store and decode small bits of data via printed symbol, received an artistic rendering by SET as part of its campaign for Marc by Marc Jacobs. The QR patterns—usually a stark, blocky, black and white pattern—are here re-imagined in a sketchy and stylish fashion, accompanying the label’s Miss Marc mascot. The new code will be part of a website available only to Japanese mobile devices.

A team of scientists at Edith Cowan University have developed an amazing new kind of color bar code that can hold large amounts of data. It’s called  the Mobile Multi-Colour Composite 2D-Barcode, and they are apparently able to hold images, video or any other kind of data which can be literally “downloaded” by camera phones.
Uses with appropriate software could take a picture of the MMCC code with their phone, and the embedded digital content would be transferred to the device. And since the codes don’t connect to the internet, they will work even where there is no kind of cell [...]

As Piers pointed out earlier, the internet does not forget. If your information is being broadcast to everyone, you should at least control the content to the best of your ability. And with Squidder’s new Twitter Feed augmented reality T-Shirt, you can become a walking beacon for whatever you twit about. No longer just for your internet buddies, the shirt lets your thoughts pop out into the real world.
Printed on the front of the shirt is a kind of bar-code that contains your Twitter user name. When an appropriate sensing device (phone, laptop) is pointed at it, your latest Twitter [...]