USE QR CODES FOR SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING

USING QR CODES

A Quick Response (QR) code is a two dimensional code that can be scanned by smartphone cameras to automatically pull up text, photos, videos, music and URLs. These codes have become mobile friendly ways to point people in the offline space to online resources.

A quick Google search for "QR code generator" is all it takes to find a plethora of places you can go to generate your own barcodes. Consider starting first with Kaywa, iCandy or Stickybits.

How to work with it:

Here are few tips that can be applied in the small business marketing strategies.

·         On business cards: A fast and simple method to use QR codes for business promotion is to use them on the business cards. The generated barcode can be posted to social networking sites that direct the scanners to the online resume of the company.

·         On marketing material: Use of barcodes for the identification of product has been a healthy practice. QR codes can be used in the brochures, handouts, pampletes of the company so that the viewers are directed to the online site automatically.

  In storefront windows: Google is sending out QR code window decals to top local businesses with Google Place Pages. If they don't send you one, steal the idea and generate your own QR code to place in your window. You can use this code to encourage Fousquare checkins, point scanners to your Yelp profile, or simply invite customers to share memories in photo, video or text form via Stickybits.

Things to remember for the use of QR codes :

If you are going to use QR codes for the promotion of your business, you have to remember that QR codes and scanner is still new thing for most of the people.

If you are sure to use them, make it sure you have the proper display of what QR code is and how the scanner is used.

Also, remember that QR codes should provide some kind of value to the scanner. It may be easiest to direct QR code scanners to your website, but that's likely not the most engaging place to send people.

Miracle Material-Graphene

2D Material

Today’s materialistic world is constantly on verge of searching something that has reduced size, weight, but has kicking performance. Everything you could have imagined a few decades back is reality now that too in the adoption of nano-technology. Bronze age and Iron age has some meaning in itself as it is the hot topic of modern era. Concrete, stainless steel and silicon made the modern era possible. A new type of material containing single layer of atoms are emerging.

Known as two-dimensional materials, this class has grown within the past few years to include lattice-like layers of carbon (graphene), boron (borophene) and hexagonal boron nitride (aka white graphene), germanium (germanene), silicon (silicene), phosphorous (phosphorene) and tin (stanene). Every 2D material has exciting properties and can be combined like Lego bricks to build more new materials. Graphene is stronger than steel, harder than diamond, lighter than almost anything, transparent, flexible, and an ultrafast electrical conductor. It is also impervious to most substances except water vapor, which flows freely through its molecular mesh.

Hexagonal boron nitride has been combined with grapheme and boron nitride to improve the contents of lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors. By reducing the volume but still packing more energy, the charging time is reduced, battery life is being extended and lower weight and waste for every electrically driven devices from phones to the electric vehicles.

Whenever new materials enter the environment, toxicity is always a concern. It’s smart to be cautious and to keep an eye out for problems. Ten years of research into the toxicology of graphene has, so far, yielded nothing that raises any concerns over its effects on health or the environment. But studies continue.

      Merits:

1.  Thinnest and strongest material  known
2.   Superb conductor of both heat and electricity.
3.  Used  in  the  production  of  high  speed  electronic  devices  responsible  for  fast  technological  changes.
4.   Chemical sensors effective at detecting explosives.
5.   Transistors  that  operate  at  higher  frequency  as  compared  to  others.
6.    It  has  led  to  the  production  of  lower  costs  of  display  screens  in  mobile  devices  by  replacing  indium-based  electrodes  in  organic  light  emitting  diodes(OLED)  which  also  lower  power  consumption.
7.  Used in the production of lithium-ion batteries that recharge faster. These batteries use graphene on the anode surface.
8.   Storing Hydrogen for fuel cell powered cars.

Demerits:

1.  Being  a  great  conductor  of  electricity, although it  doesn’t  have  a  band  gap (can’t  be  switched  off). Scientists are working on rectifying this.
2. The  main  disadvantage  of  graphene  as  a  catalyst  is  its  susceptibility  to  oxidative  environments.
3. Research has proven that graphene exhibits some toxic qualities. Scientists  discovered  that  graphene  features  jagged  edges  that  can  easily  pierce  cell  membranes,  allowing  it  to  enter  into  the  cell  and  disrupt  normal  functions.

The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance

SCIENCE IN FITNESS

The science of fitness provides the reason of how and why the exercise and nutrients helps to uplift one's healthy and healthy being."Physical activity," "exercise," and "physical fitness" are terms that describe different concepts. However, they are often confused with one another, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

The energy expenditure can be measured in kilocalories. Physical activity in daily life can be categorized into occupational, sports, conditioning, household, or other activities. Exercise is a subset of physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive and has as a final or an intermediate objective the improvement or maintenance of physical fitness. Physical fitness is a set of attributes that are either health- or skill-related. The degree to which people have these attributes can be measured with specific tests. These definitions are offered as an interpretational framework for comparing studies that relate physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness to health.

You might think of getting to the nearest gym and performing the sets of exercises as directed by ur trainer but until you don't know the exact science behind the working of your metabolism, you wont be able to present a discoverable change to yourself. 

Fitness isn't something that can be bought in the market by spending few bucks, it takes lots of determination and will power in order to achieve something you always have dreamt of. Be sure to take good knowledge of science behind the fitness and direct yourself in a better being future. 

Power can be any state of mind and body that allows you to do some job. It should be your sheer interest of yourself to provide you enough strength to perform you task. 

Performance is the state when there is ultimate self satisfaction. The limit of one's body that s/he thinks can do is their ultimate performance.   

Porsche Mission E

Porsche Is Already Testing the All-Electric Mission E

Porsche, everyone's favorite sporting automaker, will build its Mission E all-electric sedan. The Mission E, first introduced as a concept in Frankfurt last year, is Porsche's first real step towards an all-electric vehicle in it's lineup.

According to a report by U.K. publication Autocar, sources say the Mission E has already started testing, using a Panamera-like disguise complete with tailpipes to hide its true EV intentions. Sneaky.

The Mission E will be purposed as a Tesla Model S rival, complete with a battery pack that will reportedly hold more than 330 miles, and have a 0-60 time of around 3.5 seconds.

Since pretty much anything from Porsche these days is a huge hit, we're expecting the production-ready Mission E to meet some high expectations.

The Porsche Mission E is the first fully electric car of Porsche.The Mission E is powered by 2 electric motors: one at the front axle and one at the back. All the four wheels are individual controlled by Porsche Torque vectoring system. The 2 electric motors produce more than 440 KW. The car has a system power of 800 V DC. The batteries can be charged by an inductive plate or with an conventional charger system. Porsche claims that with Porsche Turbo charging system the battery is loaded to 80% in just 15 minutes.

Considering it’s being presented as a concept car, Porsche wasn’t shy about making performance claims for the Mission E. In addition to the acceleration, range, and charging stats, Porsche stated matter-of-factly that this concept could cut a sub-eight-minute lap time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Whether that is high-voltage fantasy remains to be seen, but one thing’s for certain: With this concept, Porsche is charging crest-first into Tesla territory.

Galaxy Note 7

Curvy Samsung Galaxy Note 7 takes giant

What do you get when you take the curved-screen Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and add a stylus? The Galaxy Note 7, which Samsung unveiled last tuesday in New York.

The Edge and Note don't look identical, but close enough that if you see them both in black and the S Pen is holstered away, you may not immediately know the difference. But there are a few. The Note 7 has a symmetrically rounded front and back compared to the Edge's flat back and curving face.

The Note 7 will be available from all four major carriers on August 19th, with preorders starting  August 3rd. Samsung says that pricing will be commensurate with prior Note devices and will be higher than the S7 Edge, which is about $770 to $800, depending on where you look. An unlocked version of the Note 7 will be available in the US at a later date.

Samsung has also updated its software interface for the Note 7, with a cleaner color palette, softer white menus, and an overall nicer-looking aesthetic. It seems that with each new phone, Samsung’s software gets better looking, and the Note 7 is no exception. The company says that the new software interface will likely come to older models, such as the S7, but it did not provide a timeline for when that might happen.

The Note 7 is launching with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, but Samsung says that it will be upgraded to Android 7.0 Nougat in the future. When that might happen is anyone’s guess — the company isn’t committing to a timeframe and it has a history of taking a very long time to deliver new versions of Android to its phones.

Here's what the Note 7 has that the Note 5 doesn't:

1. Curved screens (sharper, less sloping than the S7 Edge)
2. USB-C charger port (Samsung's first phone to adopt the new standard)
3. Iris scanner to unlock the phone with your eyes
4. Gorilla Glass 5 screen (the first phone with Corning's new screen tech)
5. More sensitive, accurate S Pen stylus
6. Water-resistant phone body and S Pen
7. MicroSD card slot (like the S7 phones)
8. Larger battery (3,500 mAh versus Note 5's 3,000 mAh)
9. Better low-light camera
10. New S Pen tricks, like magnification and GIF-making
11. Stylus won't get stuck if you jam it in backwards
12. Coral Blue color choice (it's great)

Bristol

England’s Most Eccentric Sports-Car 

Maker Launches the Bullet

It’s been two years since we first told you about the plans of Bristol, arguably Britain’s most eccentric low-volume sports-car maker, to build a new model. Back then, we were told that the company was planning its relaunch for 2015, and that the new car would have a hybrid powertrain.

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Neither of those things has happened, and although development of the gasoline-electric version is said to still be underway, the Bristol Bullet will be powered by a BMW-sourced V-8. We’re also told that production is expected to begin in early 2017, although it’s fair to say that we’re not holding our breath on that.

Bristol Cars is excited to unveil the first new Bristol car since 2003 in the shape of an all-new 70th Anniversary model - the Bristol BULLET. 
The BULLET is a reference to Bristol Cars’ rich and exciting heritage, executed as a modern example of the best of British craftsmanship and engineered to excite as a high performance Bristol car.

Underpinning the BULLET is a BMW V8 powerplant. The result is a sublime British sports car with characteristics uniquely cultured for the first new Bristol in thirteen years.
Bristol BULLET signifies the re-birth of the brand with a design and character respecting the company’s rich British heritage – in aviation, commercial and luxury automotive – delivered with a contemporary approach to performance and comfort.

Quotes

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” ~ Forrest Gump

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West