The interweb is full of debate at the moment about Science fiction author Elizabeth Moon’s comments in an interview on a BBC radio program about it being a good idea to “barcode” infants [...]
Pirelli brings around 1800 tyres to each grand prix, but the destiny of these tyres is mapped out long before they arrive at the circuit. The tyres for each race are made in a specific production [...]
According to a report by David Jackson, Kettering General Hospital in the UK has started using a “barcoded wristband and heel prick testing label” system to make baby information (not as in [...]
I’m not sure if you have caught all the hype around the Ferrari barcode issue? Perhaps not but that’s why we are here; keeping you updated on all things interesting…and barcoded (they are [...]
A report at patentlyapple.com details very explicitly Apple’s intent to enter the mobile ticketing market. It had to be expected – The Apple Empire was destined to cross paths with the worlds [...]
A new study by Juniper Research has forecast that nearly 15 billion tickets will be delivered to subscribers’ mobile devices worldwide by 2014, compared to just over two billion this year – [...]
You see! We are not the only ones obsessed with our striped friends – Artist Scott Blake’s understandable fascination has led to him turning the barcode into an art form. He uses [...]
Have you noticed how everything these days gets branded? And I’m not talking about some mad man with a cattle branding iron running around burning his mark into anything that moves. [...]
The very first barcode ever commercially scanned was a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum at a Marsh’s supermarket in Troy Ohio on 26th June 1974. I just realised that sounds [...]
Every year, in the United States about 1,500 people have surgical objects accidentally left inside them after surgery – HECTIC! Read this article by ScienceDaily (Dec. 9, 2007) to see how [...]