WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The essential and revolutionary tool often goes overlooked but after half a century of utility, the barcode is evolving with the times. The first ever product to be ...

Redbull: It gives you wild ideas. A Swiss woman is such a fan of Red Bull that she reportedly got the energy drink can’s barcode tattooed on her skin – and it amazingly works at self-checkout.

Now that fewer people smoke, we call them “barcode lines” because they resemble the vertical lines of a barcode sticker. No matter what you call them, these lines can be frustrating to treat ...

Walmart shoppers are losing their minds after learning that the store’s budget-friendly Great Value items come equipped with invisible barcodes — a secret hiding in plain sight since 2019.

Mary Haley has the perfect party trick: a barcode-like tattoo of nearly two dozen fine lines that, when scanned with a Spotify music app, prompts a phone to play “Mambo No. 5” by Lou Bega.

You’ve probably scanned a QR code without a second thought, but did you know the same tool powering your grocery checkout is ...

(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.

But as the barcode celebrates its birthday on Monday (Apr 3), its days might be numbered as it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones. The ...

Why be like Mike when you can sell like Wemby? Spurs star Victor Wembanyama just made his first big splash in TV commercials with his debut spot for Barcode fitness water, an ad now running on ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 13 (UPI) --Consumers might notice more people these days taking cellphone photos of products on supermarket shelves. What they actually are doing is checking those products ...