Barcodes can be hard to find and can be affixed to oddly shaped products, something robots can't troubleshoot very well. As a result, Amazon said Friday that it has a plan to kill the barcode.

Amazon’s Mobile app gives you a few ways to look up products: you can search by entering ... you can search by scanning barcodes as well. Barcode scanning via a camera is nothing new—Mac ...

DVD or other product with a UPC barcode. When the app recognized the product, it will display the Amazon.com product information, including the option to play multimedia content and read customer ...

Amazon.com on Friday announced plans to offer a handheld device to more easily order groceries and other household goods from home. The wand-like device, dubbed Dash, can scan product barcodes or ...

Barcodes are set to vanish from UK shop items within the next five years, a report by GS1 UK has revealed. Retail expert Kate Hardcastle believes that new technologies which offer data to ...

and more using their smartphone’s camera in order to display product details and pricing info. Barcode scanning, however, is not unique to Amazon Flow – the feature is also available in Amazon ...

Dash is essentially a 6-inch LED scanner that can capture the barcode of any product you have lying around the house, and automatically add it to your Amazon cart. The device can also add ...

Amazon Mobile now does barcode-scanning. Simply point the camera of you iPhone 4 or 3GS (running iOS4) at the barcode of a product in-store and you will be swept off to the appropriate product ...