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Barcode Revolution

A barcode is a small rectangular area with solid dark-colored lines of varying widths usually found on the back of most products available for sale. Barcodes usually contains an item’s serial, identification, or inventory number and looks something like this:

When products with a barcode get scanned using a barcode reader, a computer can recall from a database the item’s description, price, and other pertinent information.

Barcode Revolution, unhappy with barcode’s current aesthetic uselessness, have creatively come up with many design ideas that can actually make use of the space occupied by barcodes, ultimately blending the barcode design either into the product or producing a relevant image. Here are a few we liked but we encourage you to click and check out their gallery.

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How To Polish Shoes with a Banana

November 12, 2009 Tips & Advice No Comments
How To Polish Shoes with a Banana

We generally try to keep our posts somewhat related to technology but this was just too interesting to pass up. Who knew you could polish your shoes with a banana!

8-bit Nostalgia

Lego Bricks and 8-bit music – the perfect nostalgic combination for a geeky and super awesome video.

Kudos to these guys for shooting 1500 hours of video all for only less than 4 minutes of our viewing pleasure.

Robot iPhone Mask

If you have an iPhone, children, and possibly some free time on your hands, then you may find this silly and entertaining.

All your base are belong to us ;)

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Safe Passwords

March 1, 2012

Safe Passwords

The strength of your password WILL determine how easy it is to guess/hack and therefore for someone to access your online accounts. The grid below demonstrates how important it is to have long passwords (minimum 7 characters) and to mix up upper and lower case letters with numbers (if you include other characters such as [...]

JailbreakMe 2.0

August 2, 2010

JailbreakMe 2.0

JailbreakMe 2.0 is a website that will jailbreak Apple i-devices simply by visiting http://www.jailbreakme.com from within the i-device’s mobile version of Safari. One of the very first methods developed for users to “jailbreak” the original iPhone was via a website called JailbreakMe. Those who owned the iPhone could simply visit this website right from the [...]

Safari: Download Flash Video

July 28, 2010

Safari: Download Flash Video

Here’s a neat trick for downloading flash videos right from within the Safari web browser. While there are tons of free programs or plug-ins out there that will do this for you, this trick uses features built right into the Safari browser. By downloading these videos and a compatible player, you can watch the videos [...]

Mobile YouTube

July 26, 2010

Mobile YouTube

Most smartphones, like the iPhone and Android-powered phones, come with a YouTube app of some kind built-in. Regardless of the phone’s model or OS, the app is usually pretty pretty basic in terms of functionality and really just delivers the core set of YouTube features. If you want a better, more powerful and robust YouTube [...]

Skype for iOS4

July 26, 2010

Skype for iOS4

Skype has finally released a multitasking version of its software for Apple i-devices that run iOS4. The update allows users to receive both incoming Skype calls and messages by way of notifications if the app is running in the background. Additionally, if you’re on a Skype call, you can now freely tap the Home button [...]

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