The barcode was invented at Westinghouse in 1930 by John Kermode, Douglas Young and Harry Sparkes. The first patent for a barcode, US Patent #2,612,994, was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on 7 October, 1952. The ...
The only thing that is certain is that compliance is more easily mandated than achieved. It always takes time, and a lot of it. The RoHS2 (also called the RoHS Recast) was drafted in 2008 with an eye toward restricting hazardous ...
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Found that 72 per cent of 12 to 15 year olds own three or more media devices. Following research into the use of technology by children aged between three and 15, Ebuyer has constructed an extensive infographic to highlight its findings. ...
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Infographic depicts the firm's rebound since the turn of millenium to become world's second largest toymaker A LEGO enthusiast and current affairs reporter has created a graph depicting how much LEGO has rebounded from a sales slump at ...
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The massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES), hosted annually in Las Vegas, showcases the latest discoveries and innovations, including audiovisual, gaming, smartphones, computing, household appliances and in-car technologies. While we see ...
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National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), a recognized leader and resource in maternal and child health, in partnership with TJL Enterprises, makers of innovative natural health products for families, today released a new ...
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The supply of recycled material is not the issue; demand for recycled material has to be created by innovation in the sector. I recently presented a selection of the packaging-related outputs of BFF's work with Defra to develop a UK Soft ...
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As more companies take environmental stewardship into consideration along their supply chains, recyclable and recycled packaging have seen significant growth. According to a recently released infographic from Shurtape, this trend impacts ...
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Diversified industrial company Gates has released a new bottling industry infographic which synthesizes extensive beverage industry research. The company has included quick-hit, easy-to-digest content on preventive maintenance, minimizing ...
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The incandescent light bulb was invented in 1879. It has served us well for the last 134 years. But as energy demands rise and concern over green house and climate change grows, a challenger has risen—the LED light bulbs. In 2011 ...
A new infographic released by Vitamin T warns that companies who ignore mobile users are going to be left behind. Now that mobile platforms for web content and interactive apps are becoming the industry standard, Vitamin T has made an ...
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DuPont celebrated the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program last night, granting top honors to U.K.-based design firm pi 3 for AidPod, which delivers life-saving medicine to remote sub-Saharan villages. This unique ...
It pays to be careful about which apps you download to your smart phone. More than 5 million smart phone users experienced symptoms of malicious software on their phones in the past year, our latest survey projects. Even a nonmalicious app ...
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Many smart phone users don't adequately secure their phones, according to our latest survey. If that group includes you, here are three simple steps you can take to protect your privacy as well as the information on your phone if it's lost ...
Consumers' home PCs were no safer than they were last year, our annual State of the Net survey found. Heavy spam afflicted 43 percent of those surveyed. We've used our survey to extrapolate the number of consumers affected nationally. ...