They were used in everything from UPC checkout scanners, video disc players to medical and monitoring technologies and laser printers.
The American 12" album cover was jokingly dominated by the album’s Universal Product Code.
Its main characteristic was traditionally seen as its refusal to review anything that has a UPC label, considering that to be a mark of consumerism.
Live Code (otherwise known as Live Code 6007042 02528 in North America or Live Code 5413356 424225 in Europe, depending on the UPC-EAN) is a live album by Front 242, released in 1994.
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IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.
M Network produced home ports of popular arcade games, including BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump and Lock 'n' Chase (all 1982) as well as original titles such as Tron: Deadly Discs (1982 – based on the Disney movie) and Kool-Aid Man (1983), one of the earliest "promogames", originally available only via mail order by sending in UPC symbols from Kool-Aid containers.
The bottle/can is then automatically rotated; the bottle/can is then scanned by an Omnidirectional UPC Scanner, which scans the beverage container's UPC.