Rectangular barcode blocks have been slapped on to products for more than forty years now.In fact, the first barcode was used on a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum in an Ohio store in 1974.

Most of us would have done shopping in malls, shops and like-wise places and at the time of payment at cash counter you must have seen that the salesman had scanned the tag of the product you ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. N. Joseph Woodland, who six decades ago drew a set of lines in the sand and in the process conceived the modern barcode, died on Sunday ...