Black & White Square

[whiskeryron]

I feel that I should know this,but don't. Right at the bottom of ''Latest Posts''there is a black & white square thingy. What is it & what is it for ?

WR.

[boxtops]

I haven't got one on my screen but I'm on a PC - is it one of those squarey things you show to your mobile phone, to link you to an advert?

[gen2]

Not on my machine. Probably an advert.
If it is a square divided up into smaller black and white squares then it is what is called a QR code - a 2D version of a bar code.

Ask someone with a smart-phone to point their device at the code and it will link them to the advertiser's website.

You also see them on adverts on billboards and in newspapers and magazines.

[mccfluff]

its a qr code, you scan it using your smart phone and it takes you to where-ever, some magazines have them, say it's an article on racing and you scan scan the reader and see a clip of the race

[boxtops]

Oooh - perhaps it takes you to a clip of bleary ABers, morning-posting in their jammies....

[mccfluff]

what a thought.....

[mccfluff]

*hurriedly puts jamas on*

[boxtops]

Nooooo, fluffy!

[whiskeryron]

Thanks guys, now I know.

WR.

[rccatnap]

Yes, it's short for 'Quick Response Code'.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
Happy New Year.

[Hopkirk]

I refuse to get a smart phone.

Is my life poorer since I can't use QR codes?

[hc4361]

You can put QR codes on headstones now. Scanning with your smartphone will bring up a memorial page with photos and a biography of the deceased, with tributes and personal memories.

[boxtops]

Do you have to carve it in, hc, or is it a plastic thingy you stick on?

[hc4361]

Laser engraved, boxy, usually on a stainless steel plaque embedded in to the headstone, or stuck on at a later date.
Can be on memorial plaques to, when there is a cremation rather than burial.