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This post originally appeared on Kao Collins' The Ink Tank. The invention of the barcode for marking and coding was ahead of its time in 1952 when it was granted a patent. Norman Joseph Woodland and ...

Barcodes grace almost every product for sale. Given how much package real estate they command, why shouldn’t they look cool? Since 2005, D-Barcode has been creating custom barcodes for a mostly ...

(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 ...