Micromotors are artificial microscale devices which can achieve autonomous movement by converting supplied fuels or externally provided energy into kinetic energy. Since the concept of micromotors was ...

Software maker is licensing a new format that uses colorful triangles, rather than black and white lines, to pack more data into less space. Images: Microsoft's multicolor bar code During her years at ...

(Nanowerk News) A new, nanotechnology-enabled color barcode system developed by Microsoft will find its way onto DVDs later this year. "We use color to store more information," said Gavin Jancke, ...

Microsoft Corp. is getting into the business of bar codes. But these aren't your typical black-and-white stripes. The company has developed a new type of bar code that uses multiple colors and ...

We never really thought about it before, but a traditional barcode or QR code is pretty two dimensional. A 3D barcode sounds like marketing hype but the JAB (Just Another Barcode) system adds a third ...

A colour barcode system holding more data than current codes will find its way onto DVDs later this year. The four and eight-colour geometric patterns can hold up to two-pages of data, double the ...

A two-dimensional barcode used for mobile tagging. Microsoft Tag is a four-color variation of Microsoft's "High-Capacity Color Barcode" (HCCB), which uses eight colored triangles to provide a capacity ...

(Editor’s Note: This article originally stated that Microsoft Tag uses QR code. It actually uses a next-generation form of barcode called High Capacity Color Barcode, or HCCB. The article has been ...

After years of being decked out in monochromatic stripes, the bar code is going color. The bar code has already undergone some changes. Though the standard, striped variety is still ubiquitous on ...