Last Saturday I watched “Wetten Dass…?”, a famous German TV show in which candidates from all walks of life come in and bet to perform sometimes quite unbelievable things. I shall never forget the team that managed to place a full-size digger onto 4 beer glasses (beer glasses? how much more German can a bet get?).

This weekend 2 kids came along and managed to identify 80 products by their bar codes, which made me smile, as I’ve done a lot of work around SAP Smartform barcode outputs in the past and feel familiar with the different bar code flavours and whether to print the “Human Readable” (the actual number under the barcode) or not. Well, these two kids managed without it.