Bar code solutions are still the technology of choice for several applications despite the rise of RFID (radio frequency identification). But, what does the future hold? June of this year marked the ...

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) ...

Some technologies you use every day, but without thinking about them. The bar code is one of these: everything you buy has one of these black and white striped codes on it. We've all seen how they are ...

Forty years ago Thursday, the purchase of a 67-cent (U.S.) package of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, received what may have seemed like an undue amount of attention. With ...

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They’re on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than ...

If you plan to run a very small store, sometimes called a "mom and pop" shop, you can probably hand-enter pricing information when ringing up a customer's order. For a larger scale operation, however, ...