This week I made possibly the geekiest thing ever. It is a deck of cards that are marked on the back. They aren’t marked by traditional tiny hidden markings on the corners however, the entire back of the card is marked by a QR code.
A QR code is a type of bar-code that is commonly scanned by mobile phones to exchange contact information, urls or as is the case here, text.
If you want to see what card lies face down on the table, you get out your mobile phone, launch your favourite bar-code scanning app, point the camera on the back of the card and then you will get a message stating the exact name of the card.
Want to try it? Get out your phone and see if you can use it decipher the cards below.
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Elizabeth Sep 17 2010 - 3:28 pm
This is genuinely awesome! I love geeky things like this. Whether they could actually be used in a trick without the punter working out what was going on is another matter!
Louise Marshall Sep 17 2010 - 5:38 pm
If you slapped on bluetooth my little geeky mind would exploded hehe,
These card are outstanding, will you be selling them at all?
Love
LOuise
Magick Mel Sep 17 2010 - 6:17 pm
So that’s what those strange box things are.
they have on everyone ‘favourite’ cans of pepsi.
very clever.
Louise Marshall Sep 19 2010 - 4:15 pm
and also is the answer ?9 of Spades, Ace of Diamonds, King of Clubs and A Joker?
Love
Louise
x
barry Sep 20 2010 - 10:38 am
@Louise Yes, correct!
i.e.magic Sep 20 2010 - 9:48 pm
Lovely, yet useless. You need your phone to read it. Who’s gonna whip his/her phone out to read these babies?
If that would have been the point, you should’ve invented your own code which would have been a little more invisible.
Paul Sep 24 2010 - 1:47 pm
Pure win.
Pure want!
Dave Sep 27 2010 - 7:35 pm
Cool. Did you print them out somehow, or order them through a service? They look like they’re made of something rigid like a real playing card. Nice novelty either way!
mike Sep 28 2010 - 3:06 pm
Pretty good bet these will never be used in Reno or Vegas
Kyra H Nov 1 2010 - 8:32 pm
Absolutely brill!!!
I want some. You should sell them. Please!
shannon Nov 28 2010 - 1:25 pm
that’s fucking cool
Victoria_loves_ya Jan 29 2011 - 10:23 pm
omg this is actually amazing
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx i’d love to have cards like these! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx