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DESIGNER/DRAUGHTMAN

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Date: 2008-10-27 08:23:11

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The Ticket Booths Of The Future (More Interesting Than It Sounds)

Ahhh the future, a time when we will fly to work, cloning will have wiped out hunger (ohhh controversial) ... mobile phone handsets in Japan are equipped with a RFID chip which allows them to send a unique code ... at all really. He’s an RFID (radio frequency identification) reading ticket dispenser made by NEC [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:36:28

eCL0WN by Jeroen van Beek

at Black Hat Japan I told Jeroen about NFC mobile phones at that you can use those as a normal RFID reader/writer and that we/he should make a passport reading tool. It seems that he got to work [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 11:58:00

Can RFID get it together to jump the chasm?

After what seems an age of working from home and in the office over the summer, I’m out on the road again ... of Glasgow.  I’m on my way back from speaking at a one day conference – Introducing RFID – ... . RFID that wonderful technology that makes self-service so much more an engaging and simple process [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 20:32:04

Microsoft Tags

Let me spend few mins to write a lunch time post for giving the solution to yesterday's riddle, reported below:         ... /whatever you codified your Tag to point to The phone software works like a charm on my little HTC ... to my mind when I thing of this: Poor's man RFID, annotate every drug bottle to a pointer to a page [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:13:11

Secret to success.... Work hard.

A couple weekends ago, my dad and I were drinking and smoking cigars (as we always do), and he expounded on how 'lucky' I was to have built Simply RFiD to what it is.   Lucky?  Pfft... I tried to convince him I busted my ass to make things work.  He wouldn't believe it and said many [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 02:40:18

Afternoon Linkage for August 8th, 2008

If you haven’t seen Pineapple Express yet, this weekend is a great time to do so. Ryan and I will be working on some new Arduino projects this weekend and we hope you’ll ... TR-808 drum machine (how appropriate) RFID is not secure at Black Hat ‘08 Get Rich: DIY Paperback [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 16:29:37

Sony Ericsson patents method for devices to communicate through touch

Unlike front-facing VGA cameras, external antennas and the RAZR, touchscreen displays are here to stay ... cellphone manufacturer out there) working on their own products, but a recent patent application suggests ... be a physical wireless connection between the two devices (possibly RFID tags), and once the process [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:11:00

GPS replacement works underground too

GPS replacement works underground too Geomagnetism and more used to cut out satellite blind spot Satnav | 5 hours ago More tech news RFID robot spells doom for human shopkeepersBig Brother camera spots security threatsYahoo! claims ... application premiered [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 08:07:46

RipoffReport.com for finding any negative before you buy Online!

Here’s an interesting site I came across today, it’s called RipoffReport ... in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question. better business bureau ... brings Web 2.0 Tagging to the Real World with RFID Tagging System! (1) rVita Launches ‘Nirvana’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 23:54:41

Panasonic Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant

Panasonic is back with yet another Toughbook for those who work in tough and rough conditions, ... megapixel auto-focus camera with dual LED lights Fingerprint scanner Contactless smartcard reader RFID reader MIL-STD-810F and IP54 compliant 3 foot drop approved Magnesium alloy chassis Sealed all-weather [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:00:38

MIT students to help Boston secure its subway fare system

MBTA and students it sued will work together to fix weaknesses in Boston's subway fare collection system now that lawsuit against the students over their RFID card hacking research has been dropped. More... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 22:24:29

Busy Bees Get Workshy When Times are Good

The stereotypical image of the hard-working bumblebee has been shattered by new research published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Social ... transmitters (Radio Frequency Identification or RFIDs) to the bees, to determine the frequency [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 11:02:00

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Posted on October 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM • 18 Comments • View Blog Reactions Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work According to a massive report ... more Americans live their lives online, using everything from VoIP phones to Facebook to RFID tags in automobiles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 18:30:19

Practice Observed: Secure Improvisations

Improvisation enacted to overcome a secured door that is probably the most often used in the studio, ... ..) A stapler used to keep a door open helps one poor sould evades the secure RFID lock. Likely, their secure card was left on their desk or some such and the stapler provides them a momentary work-around [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:01:28

Practice Observed: Secure Improvisations

Improvisation enacted to overcome a secured door that is probably the most often used in the studio, ... ..) A stapler used to keep a door open helps one poor sould evades the secure RFID lock. Likely, their secure card was left on their desk or some such and the stapler provides them a momentary work-around [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:01:28

A new obsession?

At DefCon 16, I finally got to see some of the other things going on other than CTF ... on the previous badges, I think. The thing I really want to build is a RFID cloner. The simplest, but most ... with info on building it was squashed. :-( Oh well, I'll keep searching for something that will work [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 06:07:22

What I've been working on

What I've been working on Right around the first of June, I started a new project ... that consists of maintaining an existing application that does RFID scanning.  In the last 2 months [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 14:45:46

What supermarkets know about how we buy

This week's Economist has a great article looking at the work supermarkets have done to understand the buying, thinking, ... them around a retail centre (without consent) and the growth of the use of RFIDs to track people [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:27:45

Whence the universal tag?

With another E-metrics Summit over (sans me, sadly), it’s clear that interest in web analytics and online measurement remains high, even ( ... analytics continue to merge and overlap, one urgent question remains unanswered: what are we going ... now – ad servers and web analytics products still collect their data entirely separately, leading [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 22:22:23

New Uses for 5 Old Pests

Doctors, criminologists and even manicurists have been busy putting smaller, less cuddly members of the animal kingdom to work. From monitoring the water supply to treating callused feet, here are some examples. 1. Bluegill Fish Enlisted in War on Terror During a meeting in 1960, Chicago Mayor Richard J [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 21:29:09

Society's Secrecy Fetish

A hot topic of conversation at last week's CRN/IEET seminar on Global Catastrophic Risks was the whole issue of privacy, ... , you're already using RFID. Your Speedpass contains a microchip and a small antenna that allows ... . The title was Privacy and Accountability: "You need not be paranoid to fear RFID," says an op-ed piece [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:57:10

Leave Your Thoughts at Home (Land Security)

This is right off the Sci-Fi channel. Homeland Security is working on a scan that reads your mind ... just long enough to determine whether any suspect materials - such as types of metal, rubber, plastic ... who refuse will most likely have to submit to a physical pat-down. As far as the RFID Chips [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 18:25:20

DIY Video Poker Table

Know When to Hold 'Em: courtesy Jason Kiely Every Friday night, about 10 regulars gather at my place in Perth, Australia, to play Texas Hold 'Em. I'm the co-founder of a technology-services company, L7 Solutions. I'm also a chronic tinkerer ... combines the video files with RFID data from the tagged chips and cards to create a simulcast [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:49:00

SDRNews SDR2008-11-25 Network of Everything

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Layoffs at Google ? ... and while other nodes on the network link to RFID chips in prescription drug pillbottles in the medicine ... of sensors surrounding an individual in daily roles as father, husband, home owner, patient, employee [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 04:43:34

meet the new schtick

I did a presentation for a group of Guardian folk a couple of years ago. I wrote it up here. It was fun. And more importantly for me, it was useful, because I've been doing some variant of that presentation ever since. To the point I'd been starting to get really bored with hearing the same ad-libs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:09:26

Tablets for Clinical Practice

I recently heard of a laptop that may have been designed for clinical use instead of taking current technology and trying to make it work ... and with sealed buttons for hygiene, and is fanless. It’s got a six-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, an in-built RFID reader, 2-megapixel camera with auto-focus and dual LED lighting, barcode reader [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 14:36:10

PAUL FOWLER: Sensors increase value of RFID in pharma supply chain

Nov. 13, 2008 – Paul Fowler of Axway discusses how sensors add to the integrity of pharmaceutical distribution, adding benefits way beyond ePedigree. Does that mean they are working with sensors, certainly in the case of temperature? FOWLER: Absolutely. Our products can track and analyze data from sensors for temperature, shock and location [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 23:19:05

Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision

Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05

Technology changes the check-in desk

A better title might be Technology gets rid of the check-in desk, because that’s pretty much what Air New Zealand is doing for domestic passengers ... out. You’ve been able to check in online at Air New Zealand and lots of airlines for some time ... to show the phone to the pass reader at the aircraft gate. Q: Does this actually work? A: It’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 22:12:05

Polite Pays Off

© McGun I was talking to a friend the other day about a woman who works with us ... trying to seal the deal. No, a very natural and unaffected sense of nice. It sounds fogy ... June 2006 Six hundred reads per minute to become a reality with new RFID protocol standards - 18 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 15:53:05

Scoring my 2008 Tech Predictions

I’m about the least unopinionated guy I know.  362 days ago, I made a whole bunch of predictions.  Let’s see how I scored… TV Technology Every major cable company will increase it’s rates by more than 3%. Nobody will complain, and our government will (again) fail to protect us from them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 22:57:45

Random observations from Devoxx 2008

Devoxx is an annual European Java conference with a total of 3200 attendees from 35 countries and again has been completely sold out ... . Random ramblings will follow. Monitoring tools The conference passes have embedded RFID chip ... . Which application server is the most popular? Which app server is evil? Besides Websphere [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 08:42:35

My volunteer work helps me be a better consultant", says Lucy Vento

... for CSC Consulting in the Supply Chain Management practice where she specializes in global logistics ... of the Colorado RFID Alliance and was the 2001 President of the Denver Telecom Professionals (renamed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:14:54

BMW working on multi-function smart key

Filed under: Gadgets, Tech, BMWBMW's research unit has announced its latest innovation; the groundbreaking research has led to.... a Mobil Speedpass ... more functional than ExxonMobil's 11-year-old RFID gadget, but that's the general idea. Wrapping NXP's latest ... services using BMW telematics will also be possible with the key - whatever that really [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 15:39:15

Ep. 49 - 9-03-08 - Take 2 Edition

Take 2 - Labor Day - Work work work - Congrats on Pay the Fan Winners - RSS change Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days - No CC needed: GoToMeeting ... Drops Price Magazine on iPhone Marriage Made in Computer How Viagra Saves Life 3rd Gen Zune ... Up / Page Down RFID Myth Apple - get an iMac Listeners’ Notes: Are You A Weblebrity PA [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 04:19:05

City Eco Labs and other compelling reasons to go on living

(((My residency at Sandberg Instituut has ended gracefully and I am in transit for the next few days. Please console yourselves with the brilliant outpourings of the mighty John Thackara.))) Doors of Perception Report By John Thackara November 2008 City Eco Lab - from Open Money to VeloWalas CITY ECO LAB ENCOUNTERS If you know of another [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 08:37:52

User Data Preservation (UDP)

Ovi Sync and since then I refuse to go back to cables. Nokia Users were Born Free so it suits us to be able to sync, backup, update anything On The Go, Over The Air. This is also quite a unique feature - while Google’s Android is able to receive automatic OTA updates (but a manual update voids your guarantee on the G1) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:46:24

Arphid Watch: Chair Follows You Around For Constant Seating

(((Okay, it's just conceptual -- even a Roomba can't navigate that snappily -- but what a cute design treatment and what a nice soundtrack on that ... is for Openbare Bibliotheek Endhoven, and it's fantastic. What you do is swipe your RFID-enabled library ... , be sure they haven't been hacked for RFID identity theft.))) http://gizmodo.com/5016550/rfid [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 13:37:48

End The New World Order With Global Non Compliance - Short Documentary Outlines Entire Global Conspiracy

Quotes from this video (Transcript) The German Philosopher Johann Von Goethe once said “there are none more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free.” But few who hear the words realize that they are the ones to whom Goethe was referring [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 21:55:55

RAJ SAKSENA: Machine to machine talking with RFID

Sept. 11, 2008 – We spoke with Raj Saksena, CEO of Ominitrol, about their recent recognition for innovation in plant automation. Congratulations! ... and readers, mobile devices, which were hand held, both scanners and input devices on the shop floor ... that were used during the work process. In hand held devices, the first few that comes to mind [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 20:48:40

From Sentient to Responsive Cities, Long Version

Last week at Visualizar’08, I presented the long version of my talk From Sentient to Responsive Cities (slides with notes) ... when actively or passively interacting with new urban actors such as wireless networks or RFID systems ... activity to the definition of indicators to measure the evolution of the attractiveness of places [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 03:00:03

Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones

Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2009) — University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving. The university has obtained provisional patents and licensed the invention – Key2SafeDriving – to a private [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 14:24:48

Hardware Hack, Mac Book Air Super Drive on any Computer

Tnkgrl has come up with a totally awesome hack that is totally accomplishable by anyone with a bit of patience, ... , Use Your Overheating Gadgets Instead (2) Wi-Fi Predator, a DIY Long-range Wi-Fi Snooper ... (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip From a Card (0) [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 00:30:01

HSBC: Banking on the Network

HSBC are pretty transparent these days about their strategies, as can be seen from their investor relations webcasts and presentation downloads ... Technology and Services Officer (CTSO) discussing the bank as a network. This is a presentation ... employees, a third of which work in HSBC Tech and Services (HTS) supporting 9,500 offices across 85 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 17:59:49

Thankful for a Smaller, Flatter, Smarter Planet

Greg over at IBM Eye has a post that points to Gaurav Sabnis' article ... commenting on Mitt Romney's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" . Mitt Romney During the Republican primaries, Mitt Romney promised Michigan he would bring back [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 16:16:05

Wow. Just wow.

In reply to Super Giant: 1964: I, too, worked in a grocery store in the late-70s when I was in high school ... complicated but efficient label gun used to print and affix the prices to the products. As a stocker ... until the self checkout and then later RFID based systems (you just walk out of the store [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 17:13:53

Traffic work research

Your mobile will proactively advise you that you are meeting so-and-so at 10 a.m. and that traffic is picking up, so you should leave right now. It will than route you based on real-time traffic flow data to avoid jams. This is the promise, which Nokia is making on it’s current research regarding traffic data [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 14:20:34

What Is A Domain Name

By John BlanchardDomain Name Get the stability and reliability you deserve when you keep your domain name with the global leader in domain name registration and Web hosting. Domain Name ServicesCommKal Hosting Solutions provides domain name services which allow you to register, transfer, manage, protect, search, renew, and reserve any [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:37:00

RFID Beer Cooler Lockdown

The Revision 3 show Systm has been on and off since it was introduced many years ago ... Equipment Parallax RFID Equipment "RFID, or Radio Frequency ID, is everywhere: key cards ... . This episode talks about installing a RFID lock in your bar fridge, the locking mechanism [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 11:02:37


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