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 ...

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 ...

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.

New data matrix codes present exciting new options in mobile marketing and communication By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the ...

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.