Apart from finding the nearest pharmacy and providing you with weekly deals, each app has a very cool "refill by scan" feature in which you just grab your empty pill bottle, scan the barcode ...

Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old. Almost as old ...

where there’s no need for barcode labeling. The bottle is made from 100% recycled plastic, with the exception of the cap. Still, the company’s goal of being fully circular for every bottle it ...

From that moment on, it wasn’t until the mid 1980s that barcodes became standard ways for retailers to ring up sales and track inventory, and now they are ubiquitous. No product—bottles of wine ...

Marketers have become enamored of QR codes in the last few years, with the black-and-white icons popping up almost everywhere -- from magazines to subway posters to ketchup bottles. Barcode ...