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More Things: 2D Barcodes
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More Things: 2D Barcodes

This month we talk about Sunrise 2027, matrix codes, and KarTrak.

We also discuss IBM, Whiskas, and QR codes.

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Transcript

Barcodes were patented back in the early 1950s by a couple of inventors, Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver, who wanted to create a visual means of storing data that could be quickly read by a scanner.

The first functional version they c…

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