The barcode turned 50 this year, and the revolutionary technology is still in use today. Not only is the Universal Product Code still essential for global commerce, but the technology has evolved into ...

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Hailed as 'space-age' technology upon their launch in Britain in 1979, 'bar-coding' was praised as a wonderful invention that would speed up the weekly shop. But 50 years after being first used on ...

(The Conversation) — Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the barcode. After all, barcodes are all around us — more than 6 billion are scanned every single day. They’re on ...