A fledgling business is making a success out of the card game with bar-coded quick response business cards.

Birmingham-based QRky was established in June and has designed cards which allow contact details to be easily downloaded straight to an address book.

The company’s aim is to take the 400-year-old business card into the 21st century, and uses a unique barcode to store data.

By downloading an application for your smart phone and scanning the barcode you can immediately download the content from the card which includes text, images, audio and visual.

QRky has begun investigating how it can be rolled out to the market on a larger scale. To aid in the growth of the company, QRky took advantage of the Entrepreneurs for the Future scheme (e4f) which is funded by Birmingham City Council and was awarded £3,000 to go towards a number of costs including rent, bills and moving costs.

Nicolas Holzerr, director of QRky said: “We’ve been blown away by the response from Birmingham businesses with regards to our QR business cards. They love our innovative approach and how easy it is to download the content from a business card straight to your phone.

“We all know how much of a chore it is to input the contact details of 20 people you’ve met at a networking event. Our products aim to minimise both the fuss and time it takes to store this data.”