bar code Archives

Scan Barcodes with iPhone or Android Device – Download Stickybits App

September 19, 2011

Stickybits is a free app that lets you scan barcodes with your iPhone or Android phone. Each barcode has a wall of digital content associated with it, and some have promotions and deals that will be revealed on scan. It works with all existing barcodes, QR codes, and also custom barcodes […]

The 35 Years History of Bar Code Scanning

June 29, 2009

The bar code, with its 59 black and white bars, turns 35. The bar code made its debut at 8:06 a.m. on June 26, 1974 to read the price on a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum (67 cents) at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. Today bar codes are scanned more than 10 billion times a day around the world. The package of gum is in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. […]