See that's the part I don't get. --oh wait let me...[Give him a second and soon the call switches from audio to video. He's flipping the mask around and showing her the glowing barcode printed right on the mask in the back.]

So this is a barcode. In our world and a couple of other worlds it's a picture that represents a bunch of data that's assigned to one specific thing. If you go to the stores here a lot of the things have barcodes, that's how clerks know how much each item costs. What I don't get is why this barcode isn't attaching itself to anything.