Few people think twice about barcodes, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, ...

Barcode scanners read imprinted bar/matrix code symbologies. Barcodes, also known as universal product codes (UPCs), are machine-readable data representations consisting of a series of contrasting ...

The story of the barcode’s invention reads like a sci-fi tale. It all started in 1969 when Paul McEnroe, an engineer at IBM, ...

A Barcode is a pattern of parallel bars or lines containing information that a computer can read. In this tutorial, we will explain the process of how to download the Barcode Font and how to ...

Since the end of last year, Samsung Health has had a medication tracking feature. Now, Samsung says the feature is coming to ...

Sometimes, we try to capture a QR code with a good digital camera on a smartphone, but the reading eventually fails. This usually happens when the QR code itself is of poor image quality, or if it has ...

This awesome guitar uses a barcode scanner to play notes, and various arcade controls to manipulate those notes. The barcodes themselves scan as ASCII values, and their equivalent integers are ...

A recent study has found that seafood mislabelling is running rampant in Calgary, and that certain product names are more ...

The rising preference for automation across various processes in manufacturing sectors is the key factor contributing to the ...

Today’s point of sale terminals bring convenience to both customers and businesses with mobile hardware, user-friendly ...

It was while working as an electrical engineer with IBM that George Laurer fully developed the Universal Product Code (UPC), or barcode. He developed a scanner that could read codes digitally.

Samsung Health now allows users to access their medical records from clinics, hospitals, and major health networks directly within the app. Users can scan barcodes to automatically log food details, ...