(CNN) — 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. Since its ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. N. Joseph Woodland, who six decades ago drew a set of lines in the sand and in the process conceived the modern barcode, died on Sunday ...

Most of us would have done shopping in malls, shops and like-wise places and at the time of payment at cash counter you must have seen that the salesman had scanned the tag of the product you ...