Seen that? - Radio Frequency Chips to Track Cats

Filed in archive Best of on May 23, 2010

Radio Frequency Chips to Track Cats The RFID Weblog

Cat Hiding from AuthoritiesFrom Akron, Ohio in the United States, comes this story making the headlines. The local animal shelter plans to offer a tracking system to reunite loose or roaming cats with their owners. Tiny microchips will be embedded under cats' coats. The animal shelter will be equipped with handheld readers which then will be used to scan cats picked up on the streets and brought to the shelter, [...] Read More


Track 100,000 individual documents with PJM high frequency RFID technology The RFID Weblog

How about being able to monitor 100,000 documents with a single reader? This is what Magellan has done in order to ensure a quicker read write speed. It has put to use phase jitter modulation (PJM) high frequency RFID technology which is quite different from HF and UHF in the manner it manipulates radio waves for communication. Here phase shift keying or PSK is used which spreads the RF signal [...] Read More


Injecting RFID Tags Into People The RFID Weblog

Remember Mikey Sklar and the Faraday cage pants? Back in October 2005 I wrote about him and his experimental project in "Building a Faraday Cage in Clothing to Shield RFID Tags." Well, Mikey's at it again. This time he had a surgeon friend implant an RFID tag in his hand. Now before you go "Eeeeewww" just keep in mind that implanting an RFID tag is probably no more invasive than some [...] Read More


Cats Can Trigger Allergies in Some Children Allergies

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Marzanna Syncerz Whether keeping pet cats (or dogs) can trigger asthma and allergies in children or not has been long argued. For every research study showing that such pets increase the risks of children having asthma or allergies, there's probably another one saying it doesn't. No wonder, researchers are keeping at it, trying to find an answer once and for all. A recent study indicates that it's [...] Read More


Are Allerca's Hypoallergenic Cats Ethical? Allergies

Early next year, Allerca will be delivering their specially-bred hypoallergenic cats to the first batch of owners. If you've missed a previous entry, you might want to see a video clip of veterinarian Dr. Bernadine Cruz, a spokesperson for Allerca Lifestyle Pets. Meghaun Daum, however, questions the ethics and necessity of such cat breeding. Like a lot of animal-loving allergy sufferers, I'm more than a little intrigued by the idea of [...] Read More