How about a cost effective manner of producing sets of random numbers for RFID tags? A team of University of Massachusetts researchers have exactly made this possible and using this technique it is...
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HP has introduced a prototype of the new Memory Spot chip, bringing us one step closer to the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is the vision of a future world where each item or thing is...
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Item level tagging is happening fast -- faster than most people realize. It was not so long ago that most analysts and industry insiders were suggesting item-level tagging was years away. Well, it...
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Adam Greenfield, author of the book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, can be heard in this podcast interview. Elizabeth Albrycht, one of the founding members of the Society for New...
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Anne Galloway, a doctoral student who works in the field of design of pervasive computing devices, has compiled a lengthy list of links about the Internet of Things. Hat tip: Influx Insights blog I...
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RFID has a bright and "printed" future. That may sound counterintuitive in this day of wireless communications and the Internet, where newspapers and magazines lose ground by the month. But...
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From a press release issued by NEC Corporation comes news of the invention of a very thin, rechargeable plastic battery that can be used in RFID applications: "NEC Corporation today announced...
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Recently I pointed out the Digiens@U-City blog, a blog written by Alex Guenho Lee. On his blog he has writings outlining Korea's ubiquitous computing vision for its country. Ubiquitous computing...
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Professor Lee at the Digiens@u-City blog outlines Korea's vision for implementing a ubiquitous computing environment: For ubiquitous communications, the government introduced what it refers to as...
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Museums around the world are beginning to implement ubiquitous computing environments in order to enhance the visitor's experience. A recent article in CIO magazine describes the uses. Museums...
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IEEE Pervasive Computing has issued a call for papers on RFID. The deadline for submitting papers is September 1, 2005. Here is what they are looking for: "IEEE Pervasive Computing invites...
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Last September I wrote about the "Internet of Things" or ubiquitous computing. The Internet of Things is a description of a not-too-distant future time, where everyday objects, rooms and...
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One of those experimental programs for the U.S. military is all the talk right now on blogs and other websites. The Financial Times reports that the U.S. military is developing RFID sensors that will...
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In the works: a new, active RFID-based information network to track and manage containerized ocean cargo. The network will be built jointly by Savi Technology Inc., a venture-backed provider of...
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The big U.S. RFID event -- RFID Journal Live -- has wrapped up. It's interesting that the concluding keynote speaker was not a technologist or a corporate executive, but a futurist. Paul Saffo...
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Did you know that the CIA forsees a time when ubiquitous computing will be part of the fabric of our lives? A report by the CIA (yes, that CIA -- the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency), outlines a...
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If you read just one article on RFID today, make sure it is this fascinating interview of Verisign's CEO, Stratton Sclavos on sfgate.com. (Hat tip to Mark Johnson of RFID Tribe for the link.)...
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