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Barcodes on your living room wall?

Admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:27:30 +0000

While we do appreciate the convenience of barcode technologies, it just appears that they have crossed their boundaries as mere data to be scanned, and are making their foray into our living rooms – as art forms.

A newly launched website, Barcode Gallery (barcodegallery.com) is letting users create customized and personalized pieces of modern art leveraging the QR barcode technology.

The end result is the creation of a ready-to-hang piece of colorful modern art that contains an embedded message that can be decoded by observers using camera-equipped smartphones.

Users with a camera-equipped smartphone, such as Apple’s iPhone, are able to use any number of free barcode scanning applications to decode the image.

Here’s how it works:

Image courtesy: barcodegallery.com

The QR code used in Barcode Gallery’s products, is a 2-dimensional barcode format that utilizes a pattern of boxes and squares to encode the message contents. While barcodes have been traditionally black and white, today’s camera-based scanning applications are able to decode multicolored barcodes that have an acceptable level of contrast.

Additionally, customers may choose to have their art produced on ready-to-hang canvas or on ready-to-frame archival paper in sizes ranging from 10-inch to 40-inch square.

What makes this art unique is the ability to encode a text message into the artwork itself, which is only revealed when scanned by a smartphone. Barcode Gallery allows up to 300 characters of text providing the opportunity to embed a favorite quote, poem, or personal message.

SOURCE Barcode Gallery

Wall calendars — Decorative, reusable, hip

Admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:11:12 +0000

Finally we have something that takes the ‘forgetting’ out of your efforts to stay organized. I mean, how can you ignore a wall calendar that’s staring at you right in the face?

Known for innovative, decorative wall décor solutions, Wallnutz has created oversized 30″ x 48″ wall calendars to provide a posh option for adding class to a room while keeping organization at the forefront.

Each calendar comes with reusable month decals and two sets of 1-31 number decals for easy updating, spacious writing areas, and decorative color choices that provide an easy elegance for quickly adding spice to wall space.

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The calendars adhere to wall surfaces like a decal and sport a unique surface which can be written on with dry erase or permanent marker, crayon or chalk, and simply wiped clean as needed for easy function and reusability.

And to quote Wallnutz, “Just peel and stick and schedule!”

More info: Wallnutz

Make your walls come alive — with 3-D wall flats

Admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:35:33 +0000

That’s right, the new, eco-friendly modern wall flats add some depth and ‘culture’ to your walls.

Modern wall flats

These embossed 3-D wall flats are designed to expand in any direction with automatic pattern repeat with easy peel-and-stick adhesive tabs. The possibilities to redecorating are many — they could be used to cover up a not-so-great wall, give a new look and feel to an existing one or just rev up the ambiance of the rooms to ultra modern and chic.

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Architect

Braille

Chrysalis

See-saw

Shangri-La

Get them here:

Wall flats are made from 100% recyclable bamboo pulp — which means they’re totally environment friendly and have no chemical additives.

While the wall flats can be used in a bathroom or kitchen, they cannot come into direct contact with water or be in a room with excessive and repetitive steam. One way to avoid this is painting them with an appropriate waterproof paint.

You get 10 tiles in one box. They are 18” x 18” in size and cover 22.5 square feet. There’s a convenient calculator on Inhabit’s site to find out your requirements.

Inhabit even offers FREE shipping on orders over $50.