The invention of the barcode for ... future of linking an image code to a price or other data. One problem prevented the idea from taking off until 20 years later – a scanner to translate ...

A barcode is an image consisting of a series of parallel black and white lines that ... are read by special optical scanners. Once the scanner device is placed across the barcode, it immediately ...

[James Bruton] has long been fascinated with barcode ... black and white lines that the barcode sees. Since the barcodes [James] is using don’t have the proper start and stop codes, the barcode ...