(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 ...

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 ...

Suntory's burning system Although it is a design barcode that has come to be seen from time to time as it has been adopted for amino-type and health-type catechin-style, it seems that various examples ...

This isn’t just a mug with a barcode painted on, it’s the packaging as well—the barcode can be scanned by a cashier. Designed in Britain, it should be going on sale (and scanned) shortly. [DesignBoom] ...