UK engineers have developed the first 3D barcode that can be built into products during manufacture. The new technology "has particular relevance for pharmaceutical, automotive and high value consumer ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Barcodes started out one-dimensional — a line of black-and-white stripes encoding product information. Then they went ...

Developed by Yorkshire engineers, the first 3D barcode can be embedded into products while being manufactured. The new technology is said to be a key importance to ...

The first 3D barcode which can be built into products during manufacture has been developed by UK engineers. The anti-counterfeit marker is virtually invisible to the naked eye and impossible to ...

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Engineers in Yorkshire have developed the first 3D barcode that can be built into products during manufacture. The technology, unveiled today at the British Science Festival in Bradford, is claimed to ...

UK company Sofmat and University of Bradford create process that imprints tiny pinpricks on pills so they can be identified as genuine A 3D barcode that is invisible to the naked eye and cannot be ...

The system is co-developed by engineers from a UK company Sofmat and the University of Bradford. It can give each pill an identification by stamping a series of minuscule pinpricks on it, which is as ...

The codes consist of a series of small indentations with precise, slightly different depths, allowing for billions of different combinations. They are deciphered by a device that "reads" the dents ...

DIAMONDS and valuable works of art could be protected against theft using a microscopic barcode that stores encrypted information about the provenance of the items, making ownership easy to prove if ...

A UK team has developed 3D barcodes that could help tackle counterfeiting of drugs, watches and other devices. The codes consist of a series of small indentations with precise, slightly different ...