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 ...

Appliance Science looks into the hidden meaning behind the bar code.

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

The basic idea behind the bar code came from research by N. Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the late 1940s. In the early 1960s, David J. Collins pioneered a way to scan bar codes with ...

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 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.

George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code. Since the then IBM engineer's development ...

The invention that transformed the supply chain---the Universal Product Code bar code--turns 35 on June 26. The UPC bar code has 59 machine readable black and white bars that identify products and ...

In 1952, he and Silver would patent a "classifying apparatus and method"—what today we'd call a bar code. Woodland and Silver's design wasn't quite like the barcodes on produce now though.

How to Apply for a Food Product Barcode. The bar codes placed on food packaging materials are generated and licensed by the Uniform Code Commission. This is an association of manufacturers and ...