Application of Barcodes and QR codes

Nowadays, technology can be seen almost everywhere in various forms. Barcodes and QR codes are also one of the things that revolved from technology so today's post are going to be about the application of barcodes and QR codes that can be seen in our daily life.

 Travels, events, and movies

Going for a travel is very fun. So whether you realize it or not, actually barcode helps you to travel everywhere and it is one of the most common application of barcode. This can be seen through the use of online booking systems. The travelers need to print out their boarding pass and use their smart phone by showing the code in order to check in. Hang out with friends for a movie is such great time. The admission tickets in movie theaters and other events usually use barcodes to identify and verify it to allow the customers enter the theater or the events. Count sales generated from the event also use this type of barcodes because it makes a lot of convenient to keep track of revenue. Moreover, organizers are able to save cost as they can cut their expenses on producing the actual tickets.

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 For advertising purposes

Nowadays, with the use of technology, the barcodes are made more interactive, interesting and unique by the advertisers to reach out to the customers. They can be found on the newspaper, on the packaging of food or drinks and others. It is easy peasy lemon squeezy. Download and install the apps that enables bar code reading for free.  Next, just take a click and snap in order to know more about the product that is being advertised. To learn more about the product or service provided, these barcodes usually have their uniform resource locators (URL). Easy right?

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Games

It is not surprised that barcode are used for gaming. Since 1990s, the games that use the barcodes have existed and there are even game consoles created precisely for the use of the games. For example, Skannerz that have been released in the year 2000 and being used in the game to capture monsters and engaging in duel with other players. Other than that, there is also Barcode Beasties, a game where gamers get to develop monsters or gain new power-ups by scanning certain items with the app in their phone. So lets try this games!!!

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                                      The Skannerz barcode console

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Tracking food intake

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Everyone love food right? What a wonderful world. Nowadays there are many types of food can be found in the market. But we must be careful as we are choosing food for a healthy diet. So, barcode play a key role in tracking food intake. There are certain apps that helps people in diets to keep track of the food that they consumed by just scanning the barcodes on the food. The app will instantly provide the user with all the nutritional value of the item that they are eating and can adjust the food into their diets. Tracking the food intake is important especially for people who allergy to certain food or the contents of the food such as peanuts.

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