It’s been a trial to update the Bar in recent days because of problems with the host’s domain name server, so I couldn’t update at home or indeed check my mail, except for a brief period last night. Fingers crossed it will all be sorted for Action Saturday tomorrow.
I really like the Titan robot task they’ve been doing on Big Brother across the last few days – it looks really impressive and it’s fun, but I’m rather less impressed with their other grasps of technology.
If you’ve been watching BBLB at all, in their news segment they’ve been putting up square barcodes (QR-codes), and if you’ve got a certain app on your phone you can scan the barcodes and it will take you to a webpage on your phone. It has been around since 1994, although it’s never really become mainstream, although they were used for a period to dispense clues on La Carte aux Tresors for a while. And in a Pet Shop Boys video.
Yesterday, the BB Team online really tried to push this – on yesterday’s BBLB, the barcode was going to take you to a site where some SUPER EXCITING SECRET NEWS about tonight’s eviction show was going to be revealed. They made a really big thing about this, what could be nature of this SUPER EXCITING SECRET news be? What EXCLUSIVITY does being on the very very cutting edge of 1994 technology get you?
It is, of course, the one thing everyone and his wife had correctly guessed, there are some new housemates going in. Cheers, then.
I’ll take the money box please brig!!
Ooh, I remember in Nottingham Uni last year they were using a load of these tags on paddles to create 3D objects with sound. Quite fancy. Also about a month after I learnt some Japanese company made a virtual pet game with them in which you poke a Japanese schoolgirl in the breasts. Quite.
I also saw a few on Pepsi bottles. Yeah.
This was me by the way. Also happy birthday Mr. Brig.
Many Happy Returns, Brig 🙂
Thanks chaps!
Morris from DOND, who if I remember right recently became Morris from The Chase… Is he now Morris from 101?