Barcodes may seem like the simplest thing in the grocery store, but they have a surprisingly cutting-edge history. Barcodes ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel remember Norman Joseph Woodland, an inventor of the bar code. He died Sunday at the age of 91.

A bar code scanner, also called a bar code reader, is a device that has the ability to read data from a printed bar code. A bar code is made up of a set of lines, which represents information ...

Bar-code scanning turns 35 years old today. Happy birthday, bar code!

Bar code art is nothing new. People have been getting bar code tattoos since the late 1980s in defiance of the capitalist, consumerist system bar codes have come to represent.

Recently [mit41301] wondered about increasing the data capacity of QR codes, and was able to successfully triple the number of bits using color. He chose the new rectangular micro QR code (rMQR ...

The Battle Of Bar Code Scanners Vs. RFID ReadersLaser and image bar code scanners continue to evolve, offering improved scan speed and read range. But how do bar code scanners measure up to RFID ...

Weight Watchers has introduced a bar code scanner mobile application to help grocery shoppers make more informed shopping choices and reach their weight loss goals. The new app scans the bar codes ...