For any self respecting Protein Pupil, working towards perfecting advanced Genetish, [a language based on the four letter gene code] we recommend you warm up with the common digital dialect of Bar Code. Retina scanners at the ready ...However good that intro sounded, we unfortunately might have to wait a few years before these delightful new world languages will be included in the high school syllabuses. However, some of the big players are pushing for its adoption as they see it as a perfect compliment to the ?transaction society? that we currently live in.Motorola, General Electric, Verizon, and start-ups Gamut and Digital:Convergence have introduced or will soon unveil devices that use bar-code technology to simplify purchases on and offline. For example, a consumer interested in buying a certain CD could use a Verizon mobile phone to access BarPoint.com. Once there, the consumer can enter the CD's bar code and learn more about the CD's artist, see what other CDs the artist has released, and read reviews.The :CueCat scanner from Digital:Convergence allows consumers to scan bar codes in magazine ads and then use those codes to link directly to a product's Web site. Digital:Convergence is also testing a service in which consumers could use :CueCat to scan coupons from television and online ads. Several companies are working with the Uniform Code Council, which assigns bar codes, to create codes for songs and passages of books, creating a database that would let consumers make customised CDs and books while permitting copyright holders to collect royalties.Repeat after me, | || |  |||| || ||| |||||| ||  | | |||[means ?Protein Rox? in Bar Code]