Those little black and white squares everywhere were created by a Japanese engineer who found inspiration in the most UN ...

A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost—tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes. A company in Iruma ...

InComm Japan provides QR/barcode payments at the point of sale through connections at over 50,000 retail stores in Japan, including major convenience stores, drug stores, electronics retail stores ...

From UPI payments to restaurant menus, QR codes have quietly become a huge part of our daily lives. But have you ever wondered where it all began?Long before sm ...

today announced that it has partnered with Taiwanese QR and barcode payments processor JKOPAY, to make their technology accepted at retailers across Japan. JKOPAY is well established as one of ...

Basically nothing about the symbol itself has changed in 50 years. Look at the first barcode, from a 67-cent pack of Wrigley’s gum: It doesn’t seem outdated, because it isn’t outdated.

Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old. Almost as old ...

A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost - tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes. A company in Iruma ...