Mercedes-Benz will introduce new Quick Response (QR) code stickers on its vehicles from this year, in a bid to speed up the rescue of car crash victims. To be fitted to each vehicle’s fuel tank flap and opposite side B-pillar, the ...
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GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) are collaborating to enable bar code scanning features built directly into mobile devices. This will make it ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Packaging, Printing
With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
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Design consultancy P4CK has launched a brand new packaging concept for takeaway fish and chips The news follows an appearance by the firm, last year, on BBC2’s Dragon’s Den and a £50,000 investment from Theo Paphitis. ...
Tags: P4CK, takeaway fish, takeaway chips, Packaging
Tern is conducting a voluntary recall of some bike models because the company has discovered a weakness in the frame welds. Affected bike models are Verge S11i, X10, X20, X30h, and Eclipse S11i, produced between September 2011 and March ...
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has officially landed in the UAE, following an exclusive press evening last night at the Burj Khalifa, and will be available to consumers from April 27. Samsung's Head of Telecommunications Group, Hayssam Yassine, ...
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Shimano's top line XTR mountain bike group is getting updated, lighter disc brake components, a lighter bottom bracket, a more durable chain and a super light carbon tubular 29er wheelset. The new parts are part of the XTR Race sub-group, ...
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sjennings What's the coolest thing in your office? Your collection of Star Wars bobble heads? The vending machine recently stocked with Skittles? The free coffee? All those "perks" will seem pretty lame after you read about some of the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Cool Offices
Industry veteran Mike Facchini is launching a new solid wood adult and youth bedroom supplier called Michael Ashton Designs. The company says it will focus on solid wood products with high-quality finishes. It is showing at the High Point ...
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mobiLead, which specializes in NFC and QR code information tag generation and management, today announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops open Web standards. The W3C's ...
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The organisation said that the digital revolution presents the industry with its biggest challenge for over 40 years and it will have to get to grips with interactive technology and multi-media packaging to maintain its position. CPI ...
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LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) will produce the largest trade show in its history in Philadelphia April 21-25, 2013, with additions to the show floor, conference program and events schedule designed to deliver technologies and ...
Fruit producer and marketer Sun World International has selected FoodLink to provide item-level traceability solution on seedless grapes and sweet peppers sold in the US. In addition, Sun World International plans to implement the ...
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Buying traceable, local and British food has risen “substantially” up consumers’ agendas since the horsemeat scandal, according to the latest research from Mintel. The horsemeat scandal had made consumers more aware of ...
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ON Semiconductor will showcase its latest power efficient product advances at APEC 2013, March 17 - 21, 2013, in Long Beach, California. The new devices are designed for boosting performance and simplifying the design of offline power ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor