Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Enter the Nature & More code found on your fruit, vegetables or wine and trace your product back to the producers and growers who cultivate your food.
Nature & More originated as a quality assurance program of EOSTA, a Dutch company dealing in fresh organic and bio-dynamic fruit. In response to consumer demand for healthy, organic and fairly traded food, Nature & More was created. The aim is to communicate the commitment and effort that individual organic growers make towards the planet and its people.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Trace Me is a luggage tracking device that keeps your details on file, for life. All you pay for is a luggage tag with an exclusive bar code and your details are then registered on Immobilise – a database used by baggage handling organisations across the globe.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Fair Trade Proof is an American cooperative of independent coffee roasters who invite website users to trace their coffee from farming cooperative or roaster.
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Since one sheep provides exactly enough wool for one sweater, Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has created a collection that can be traced back to source. Products from her company Flocks are tagged with a specific animal’s ID number and comes with a certificate. Information provided includes breed, weight, year, place of birth and a picture of the sheep.
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Ever wanted to know where your Dole Organic Banana comes from?
Consumers can “travel to the origin of each organic product” Dole produces. By entering the three digit Farm Code located on the sticker of their fruit. You can visit the country, the farm, view photos and learn more about their products and people.
However, read the comments on TreeHugger to see how some consumers feel about tracing goods from companies such as Dole, who have dubious ethical backgrounds.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Tracking Twitter posts.
http://twittearth.com/
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
A fresh look at the design of barcodes by Japanese firm D-Barcode. Creating subtle branding opportunities and injecting fun into a practical device.
Ecover – extending the brand identity through the barcode
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Designer Chris Adams is busy producing some great graphics for the WhyBuy.It consumer interface. Here’s how he explains the system to users:
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Just what can you achieve with a weekend of Social Innovation? After 24 hours of simultaneous hacking, designing and user requirement gathering, our Barcode Wikipedia team came up with a basic prototype system: WIBI.it. This is a simple user interface to a wiki-like system that lets anyone look up a product by its barcode and add information. The system also grabs related tagged photos from Flickr and automatically links to Amazon, price comparison sites, and related blog and review articles.
Tom and Fred managed to integrate some open source code to recognise photos of barcodes taken using Nokia phone cameras, allowing users to look up information directly using their mobile. One of the killer apps we envisioned for this type of system would be in-store price comparisons. If you are looking around shops for say DVDs or a flat-screen TV, wouldn’t it be useful to see what online prices were available at the same time — and click to order? This has the potential to turn most of the world’s shops into exhibition spaces, with the real commerce happening on the Internet.
Thanks to David Wilcox you can watch our team’s presentation at the conclusion of the weekend:
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Chile’s President Michelle Batchelet gave a talk at the London School of Economics on Friday. Maria and I, and what seemed to be the entire Chilean diaspora in London, went to hear her. She said:
“I believe that [in Chile] for so long we have struggled to be free, in many ways we forgot to be fair. We forgot that fair democracy requires equality of opportunity that comes from access to education, healthcare, social security or housing…Democracy must deliver goods, especially to those who have made great sacrifices in recent years but who have received very little reward, as shown by the levels of poverty which still prevail in Latin America.”
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