This belief arose because the number six is represented by a pattern similar to that of the guard bars used to mark the beginning, middle, and end of every bar code. Since the guard bars always ...

It is a series of asphalt rectangles coated in patterns of black and white paint. Based on the 1951 U.S. Air Force resolution test chart, the barcode-like patterns were used to test the ability ...

Richard Vorder Bruegge, an F.B.I. forensic scientist, told the jury that the visual features of the jeans in the photograph, particularly the dark-and-light “bar code” pattern, matched a pair ...

Jeans, for example, have a “barcode” pattern of dark and light splotches along their seams. These patterns have been used as central evidence to convict people, but is this kind of analysis ...

Now researchers at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute think unique patterns of neural activity that work like barcodes may be to thank for this impressive feat. Their work was recently ...

Write a proposal for grocery executives explaining how IBM would take a previously invented bar code pattern, in the shape of a bull's-eye, and make it work in supermarkets across the country.

When testing card keys, electronic lock makers often use a product called Magview to visibly identify the encoding pattern or see an embedded bar-code pattern. The process is simple: You spray the ...

When astronomical summer begins on Wednesday, a recurring image will pop up across the country and around the world. In addition, some landmarks around the United States will be illuminated with ...

For example, silver looks much brighter under blue light than does gold, thus a gold-silver multistriped particle gives a pattern of light and dark stripes reminiscent of conventional barcodes of ...

Cedar Rapids realtor Debra Callahan put up the bar code-type pattern on the billboard that advertises her services. It may not mean much to many. But aim a smart phone equipped with the right ...