Not bad, but industrial bar codes are even longer and encode the entire alphabet.
All incoming cartons, which already bear bar codes, will be electronically scanned, instead of input manually.
Materials have bar codes that are scanned out of store rooms and are issued electronically.
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CheckPoints awards consumers just for scanning bar codes on products in 2 million U.S. stores.
This app allows users to access bar codes and QR codes to scan for payment or admission.
The old Westinghouse first developed bar codes in 1929 for sorting electricity bills (but they were never used that way).
It keeps track of your clothing from drop-off to pick-up by attaching bar codes to all items received.
The IrisPen Executive, which I tested, provides the higher-end features such as the ability to read bar codes.
Forbes and other magazines give readers scanners for bar codes on ads, deriving data on who reads what.
This wave utilizes a range of technologies, from older tools like bar codes to newer technologies like QR (Quick Response) codes.
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New certifications systems, however, aim to attach bar codes to packages of Congolese metals that have been certified as conflict-free.
Mobile commerce, comparative shopping on your phone, mobile bar codes and more all existed and in many cases worked quite well.
They can be used for brand security and supply chain tracking of foods that normally can't be tagged with traditional bar codes.
Their genetic "bar codes, " based on DNA sequences unrelated to appearance or song, completely overlap meaning that the species cannot be identified from genetic fingerprinting.
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There are, for example, nearly 15, 000 bar codes for savory snacks.
Buyers already have cameras that can scan bar codes and provide both the quantity and quality of information that result in rational pricing and informed decision-making.
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Beefed-up bar codes have let Big Brown's drivers improve reliability.
Rent the Runway uses bar codes to keep track of inventory, and can typically dry clean, pack, and ship out a dress one day after a customer returns it.
She notes that she and others have seen shoppers scan the bar codes of merchandise onto their smartphones to see if they can find the items for a cheaper price online.
In addition, University of North Carolina researchers are building a database of all food consumed in the U.S. They have created a system to classify 600, 000 bar codes for food products.
Webster says he's seen a number of productivity applications, such as a shopping service that scans bar codes with the phone's camera and supplies comparative pricing, product reviews and local store information.
Nano bar codes are the molecular versions of traditional bar codes--metal nano-particles that have specific, recognizable chemical fingerprints that can be read by a machine, perhaps a UV lamp or optical microscope.
Along the way the robot snaps high-res photos of the bar codes to verify the selections. (Less than 1% of the orders are rejected, says Bronfein.) A heat press then seals the pouches.
Scanning instead of typing might work since most space-food packages have bar codes, but some are stamped on shiny curved surfaces while others are printed on thin crinkled paper wrapped around freeze-dried items.
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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.
He and his wife quickly realized they had mountains of products from which to tear off the bar codes needed to submit for proof of purchase by the offer deadline, but he was unstoppable.
Colorado already has intensive rules aimed at keeping its medical marijuana market in line, including the digital tracking of cannabis, bar codes on every plant, surveillance video and manifests of all legal pot shipments.
Such software evaluates many parameters associated with each credit-card transaction, including specific details of the items being purchased (derived from their bar codes), to evaluate the likelihood of foul play in the form of a numerical risk score.
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