He later became president of a Litton Industries unit called Intermec, a maker of bar-code scanners.
It pioneered the use of bar-code scanners, slick supply chains and inventory management tweaked to local purchasing preferences.
Using an instrument similar to the scanning bar-code guns at supermarket checkouts, this machine analyses black plastics with a laser.
The other pieces enterprise products like two-way radios for public safety agencies and bar-code scanners became Motorola Solutions, with Brown at the helm.
BECs are as unimaginable at the moment as the supermarket bar-code scanner would have been to the inventor of the laser.
It is also tricky to capture the data in the field and stick the bar-code labels on the produce as it is picked and packed.
First he argued laches, the legal term meaning Lemelson had waited too long to press claims over his bar-code reader supposedly invented in the early 1950s.
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In addition, they depend on an array of specialty devices, such as audio book-readers, color readers, navigation tools, raised Braille labels, special bar-code scanners, and large-buttoned, voice-enabled MP3 players which are prohibitively expensive.
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Equipped with a bar-code reader to scan New York registration stickers and synchronized with an atomic clock in Colorado, the devices make it almost impossible for an agent to make the kinds of errors Bolofsky depends on for appeals.
Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.
He also sees a trend toward e-gift cards or virtual gift cards, which boil the card down to a bar code--no plastic necessary.
The prototype unit here in Germany was showcased alongside of the GP-1 GPS dongle and a BR-1 bar code scanning module, with the latter meant more for governments and enterprises.
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Especially when it comes to security breaches done through fake quick response codes, or QR codes (crossword puzzle looking bar code scan-able by some smart phones), the iPhone is a lot safer, he says.
Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code, died this week at 91.
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They could be used to make cheap radio-frequency identity tags in essence, printable bar-codes that transmit an identifying code in response to a pulsed radio signal.
The obituaries lauding the accomplishments of Norman Joseph Woodland, co-inventor of the bar code, also offer a cold rebuke of the man who claimed the same thing about himself: Jerome Lemelson.
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When they get to the drop point, they just scan their bar code and place the already-tagged bag on the belt.
Leeds is bringing on five full-time developers to build an app that will plant a bar code on smartphone screens that can be scanned in lieu of a physical gift card--finally separating the card's value from its plastic delivery vehicle.
They aim to build a business on bar code registration fees and a pay-per-swipe from retailers.
Some of them rely on technology other than NFC, such as offering services that let people pay for purchases by sending text messages or by scanning product bar codes using a phone's QR-code reader.
Think of the lowly bar code that makes the lines go faster at the check-out counters, raises the productivity of the check-out girls and boys, and relieves them of the need to do arithmetic.
Those without printers can grab a free PayNearMe card at one of 7-Eleven's 6, 000 locations and use the card's bar code in lieu of a printed sheet.
If they don't have a frequent-flier ID card, travelers check in online or at kiosks and get a bar code on a printed boarding pass or on a mobile phone, just like at other airlines.
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