Active RFID is now being used to track and trace victims in a disaster situation. This is one more situation in which RFID is being used to aid the public and save lives. Data can be collected in...
Read the full post.
Hitachi and KDDI have come together to launch the muchip Reader with world's smallest sized muchip RFID tag to be used in Bluetooth enabled cell phones. Just hold your cell phone near it and the...
Read the full post.
Andy Kowl, subbing at Lou Sirico's column at RFID Switchboard, makes an interesting observation about Korea and its approach to RFID. In November, 2006 Korea will host the RFID/USN Conference. He...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Implementation
by gautam on September 26, 2006
Theo Tveteras who is first year industrial design student at AHO has worked on a project called urban orienteering which is based on the experience with parkour. For those people who are not aware...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Companies
by gautam on September 25, 2006
Just look at the sweet looking doll on the left. It is not an ordinary doll but Naoru-kun which functions in a similar to a robot. This doll comes from the stable of Bandai which is credited with...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Implementation
by gautam on September 24, 2006
Next time if you would like to pay for your coffee or for your cab you would not need to worry as MobiWallet would be with you. Jton Systems is coming up with MobiWallet which would be combining...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Implementation
by gautam on September 21, 2006
I simply don't touch alcohol nor do I recommend others to drink but this is something very interesting which I came across, the RFID tables at Intermission Bar of University of Westminster. Now...
Read the full post.
The RFID Weblog recently was reviewed in the Label and Narrow Web publication. The review was part of the launch of a new column about blogs by Lightning Labels owner and executive, Peter Renton, who...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Companies
by gautam on September 19, 2006
Now RFID would predict consumer behavior. NTT DoCoMo has come with an RFID system for predicting behavior of the customers while they are at showrooms, shopping malls and amusement parks and this...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Implementation
by gautam on September 18, 2006
Do you know that the well known Volkswagen Group churns out a whopping five million vehicles world over and every year European auto freaks pick up around 130,000 cars from Autostadt in order to save...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Implementation
by gautam on September 17, 2006
Now using pirated discs would be a thing of the past. U-Tech, a subsidiary of world's largest DVD discs producer, Ritek is in the process of developing an RFID chip which would curtail piracy of...
Read the full post.
RFID is now being used in ways that touch us everyday. Despite concerns by privacy advocates, the march toward expanding the uses of RFID has not stopped. On the contrary, it is increasing. To be...
Read the full post.
Every so often the Wall Street Journal issues its Innovation Awards, for technology innovation. This past Monday, IBM was recognized in the Wall Street Journal Innovation Awards for its clipped tag....
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Companies
by gautam on September 14, 2006
Just check this mean machine. Just out from Intermec stable is the CV30 which is being regarded as the most rugged and flexible fixed mount computer in the world. It can survive in hardest of...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive by gautam on September 12, 2006
OMRON has launched aluminum HF inlay which are meant for asset tracking and security applications such as access control and library inventory. The performance of these inlays is comparable to that...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive contest
by gautam on September 11, 2006
This is for all my lovely readers. We have started a new contest under which we would be giving a very nice book to the winner, called "RFID for Dummies". Don't take it otherwise as it...
Read the full post.
Hospitals can deliver higher quality care, make better use of their facilities (such as operating rooms) and keep track of valuable equipment -- all through RFID. Journalist Elizabeth Roop has...
Read the full post.
Filed in archive Implementation
by gautam on September 07, 2006
There could not be a better example than this when a government gives thumbs up to a technology. Swedish Parliament has selected CG Identifications Technologies HF Multi ISO reader fort its new...
Read the full post.