GE Profile has launched a brand-new smart fridge at CES 2026, sporting one unique feature we've never seen before. It could ...

List" feature uses the barcode scanner to quickly (and precisely) add items to a shareable shopping list in the company’s ...

GE Appliances has just debuted its new smart refrigerator at CES 2026, and it might have changed my mind about the future of ...

Ahead of CES 2026, GE announced the GE Profile Smart Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant, which boasts a barcode scanner that can add an item to your grocery shopping list — and syncs directly with ...

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong.

Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old. Almost as old is ...

Beep. You hear it every time you buy a product in a retail store. The checkout person slides your purchase over a scanner embedded in their checkout stand, or shoots it with a handheld scanner. The ...

In 1952 a pair of graduate students from school then called the Drexel Institute of Technology, patented a system for instant electronic recall of product information using patterns of lines of ...

The Online Tool Center explained, that little barcode on the bottom contains all of your personal information, which is used ...

List" feature uses the barcode scanner to quickly (and precisely) add items to a shareable shopping list in GE's SmartHQ app.