Taking a page from the movie industry, he opted to use a photomultiplier tube along with a 500 Watt incandescent light bulb for reading the barcodes. In their 1949 patent application, they ...

Here’s the setup: a customer couldn’t read some barcodes sent from [Benji’s] company. Yet when the bad barcodes returned, they were fine. They looked fine, too. In a Twitter post ...

These are fascinating machines with fast sensors that can read complex code in less than seconds. Here are some of the best Barcode scanners on Amazon. Here’s a handheld scanner built for 1D ...