Rice cooker is one of Japanese important invention, and the QR code.
"Back in 1994, inventor Masahiro Hara could never have guessed at the world-changing impact of his ‘eureka’ moment. Working at an automotive components firm, he’d been trying to work out a way to improve the tracking of component parts. Barcodes had limited storage capacity, meaning multiple barcodes often had to be scanned for each part. It was while playing the ancient board game Go that he had his breakthrough. Inspired by the black and white pattern of the Go board, he developed the Quick Response code, capable of containing much more information than a barcode. What was originally intended to be an industry-specific invention soon blossomed into a whole new way to process and track information in all walks of life.
Source: marketoonist.com | Tom Fishburne
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