RFID Sewn In

We’ve started to see the introduction of RFID to track things like store inventory, travelers in airports and passport holders - and next, ... a trackable RFID tag that can be sewn into garments and withstand washing machines and ironing. We’re ... you wonder how connected our clothes will be in the future. RFID Journal reports: Another of RFID Lab’ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 15:02:36

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From The Poker Table To Greeting Cards? The RFID Future

The story of the technologist who crafted an elaborate RFID poker table, complete with an HD camera to stream real-time games globally, is interesting mostly in how he attached ultra-thin and extra-flexible RFID tags to each playing ... it aside, the concept is interesting in potential future retail uses, assuming that the per-tag [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:40:21

MW08 - Question #4: What is the future of proximity marketing?

With retailer’s becoming more technologically advanced (RFID, Bluetooth, wifi) what is the future of “proximity marketing” through a mobile device? ... bluetooth, SMS, mobile web, or qr codes represents real and near future opportunities ... through Bluetooth before starting their shopping. They download a widget or application [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 22:15:09

The Future Has Arrived: Notable Technological Achievements in 2008 and What They Mean for the Future

The Future Has Arrived: Notable… Articles Listed by Industry Health Care Manufacturing Computer/Semiconductor Telecommunications Energy ... Nanotechnology Retail/Marketing Automobile/Aerospace Defense Aging Services Other Articles ... , 2007 Tracking Future Technology: nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, rfid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 16:31:15

Lead Me Not Into Temptation

September 24, 2008 Impulse control is becoming increasingly important on a personal and global scale for solving problems as diverse as obesity, ... : The future of RFID is dawning Find a recipe based on what's in your cupboard TMSUK sends a robot [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 10:05:22

RFID: An Internet of Things

Image via WikipediaCurrent rollouts of RFID tagging will be dwarfed by the future development of sensor networks, according to Robin Mannings, ... of Sun's integrated system includes RFID devices.Texas Instruments (TI) set up an automated demonstration ... BT futurologist and research foresight manager. "RFID is just the tip of the iceberg [more...]

Date: 2008-04-25 08:00:00

I know where you drove last summer - the secrets your satnav could tell

Happy Independence Day, America! ... him because he failed." Happy 4th July! Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low ... blasts back (0) RFID and the future of social networking (2) Innocence-Sensitive Spy Cams (0) Future [more...]

Date: 2008-07-04 07:17:37

Business in Virtual Worlds News Roundup - Sept 15-21 2008

Headlines about virtual worlds just from the past week ... : As with everything on my blog, the opinions expressed here are mine and do not reflect on Clever Zebra ... to Second Life A review of RFID tracking experiments for future hospitals. Dolby Gets into Virtual [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 14:51:46

A 3D Spime Gateway in Every Home

We noticed an interesting article on the Cisco blog, where author Dennis Mancini postulates the future of Spime technology. Spime? ... pervasive RFID and GPS tracking, can track its history of use and interact with the world," according ... : "Spimes are the logical output of a logistics infrastructure based on now affordable fabbers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 07:06:00

Arphid Watch: ThingMagic Arphid Truck Catalogs Its Own Tools

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21828/?nlid=1581&a=f (((I like these nice, simple, grassrootsy RFID apps ... unique is the application and ThingMagic's focus on embedding RFID into the object. The antennas ... . In the future, Maguire says, the truck bed itself might be the antenna. The system includes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 20:13:56

Faces As Brands / Data Containers

Consider the placement of sticker graph for call girl ads on the handle of a Perdizes phone booth, in a Tokyo club bathroom, ... ? And to whom? The future perfect of stickers will include more digitally readable information - RFID, QR codes, faces, ..., and naturally the tools to read them. Mismatched life cycle expectations [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 00:28:34

IBM USB ZTIC targets identify thieves

Identity theft is no doubt a problem, but IBM is looking to help prevent some of it ... . It features a processor, a display, software and more in order to make that SSL connection ... in the future. Relevant Entries on SlashGearCar thefts aided by laptopsApple cuts RFID a break [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 21:04:40

Printed Electronics Spawn Emerging Electronic Giants

Issue #167 | Oct. 23, 2008 | by Raghu Das Printed electronics is a term that encompasses thin film transistor circuits (TFTCs) ... have now entered this market. Readers of RFID Street may know printed electronics as the technology that will print RFID tags right on items in the not too distant future, eliminating the cost of applying them [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 14:31:02

Three-day Workshop on Future Libraries: Advanced GSDL and RFID, TERI, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Workshop Dates: 14–16 January 2009.For more details about the workshop, please visit the website www.teriin.org/events/dlworkshop [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 10:09:21

LEGIC moves forward in India gaining credential manufacturer APK-ID as new license partner

Zurich, November 2008–LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, leading provider of contactless Smart Card Technology for personal identification, ... gains the largest manufacturer of RFID products in India as a new licence partner. In future, APK-ID will increasingly purchase LEGIC transponders and provide contactless identification inlets [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 15:45:46

The sad future of learning?

A rather gloomy vision of the technology-enhanced future is already emerging. School children in Japan are apparently being tagged with RFID devices to prevent them ... such developments to detect snipers in urban warfare. And why, a hygiene company has created an RFID soap [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 09:01:55

Transparent Transistors to Bring Future Displays

Transparent Transistors to Bring Future DisplaysResearchers claim to have created the first prototype of a new design for semiconductors, ... for RFID tags, electronic bar codes and smart credit cards, which resemble ordinary credit cards ... , as well as flexible, while maintaining high performance levels," Marks said. "This opens the door [more...]

Date: 2007-07-11 12:40:00

RFID, since We're Reinventing the World Anyway

Issue #174 | Dec. 19, 2008 | by Andy Kowl As 2008 draws to a close the world's future seems dark or, at the least, uncertain ... your organization can become more efficient with RFID, it is hard to imagine these last couple months [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 17:05:43

Nokia’s Jeremy Belostock Explains NFC

This is Jeremy Belostock, the sales & marketing director for Nokia’s Near Fields’s Communication (NFC) department. NFC is like a hybrid of Bluetooth, RFID, and WiFi. It’s going to completely change ecommerce, and pretty much help shape (along with LBS) the future of mobile communities. iPhone Version Share This [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:32:23

Would You Like to Carry Your Medical Records…under your skin?

What are you visioning for your health? Medical records embedded in your arm. Is this the future of health? Read on. ... and their families safe,” says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal. If you’ ... . Microsoft wants to get under your skin HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips Bill Ray [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 20:40:18

USB Train Tickets reach In France

By Jonathan Kimak SNCF, a railway company in France, is trying out some new tickets. The tickets are part RFID, which was already a standard on France’s railway ticketing system ... and load money onto the ticket to compose future train ticket purcha… computer store gizmo toys handheld [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 18:04:55

MICHAEL J. FOX

I was continually having flashbacks of Michael j. Fox in “Back to the future” while I was surfing Elatec world’s web service ... to stuff on science fiction movies. So yeah. Touch Screen gadgets , and RFID Components and a majority ... me a Transponder and decoder for the parts and applications I needed. Great service from an electronics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 13:08:46

Automate this!

I recently heard Dennis Wixon of Microsoft Surface speak at UX Week about the future of interface design ... will soon anticipate and deliver what we want without us having to ask. The idea of wearing an RFID tag ... all be handled with motion sensors. I don’t know how high-tech heat sensors are, but that’s an option too [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 18:37:59

Going Green Means Going R

By Robert Atkinson President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Cross-posted as part of our Breakthrough Special Innovation Issue Global warming may finally get the political attention and action it deserves. Indeed, it’s hard to go a single day without reading something about the crisis and what we should do about it [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 23:52:16

Hold Onto Your Seats, Sports Fans: SF Giants to Try Airline-Style Pricing

Passengers find no shortage of befuddling experiences in the air travel industry. But perhaps nothing confounds customers as much as airlines’ approach to pricing, in which the fare two people pay for the exact same service can swing wildly based on — from a customer’s perspective — a labyrinthe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 11:32:00

Hold Onto Your Seats, Sports Fans: SF Giants to Try Airline-Style Pricing

Passengers find no shortage of befuddling experiences in the air travel industry. But perhaps nothing confounds customers as much as airlines’ approach to pricing, in which the fare two people pay for the exact same service can swing wildly based on — from a customer’s perspective — a labyrinthe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:50:00

The Future is Near (Field Communications)

Many young people think their phone is more essential than their wallet (so do we). Maybe that’s because they are replacing them altogether ... /president of Vivotech, Santa Clara, CA. RFID contactless readers are becoming more and more pervasive, and you may have tapped them with your bank card in drug stores, fast food chains, gas stations, even [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 21:38:47

Future Technology Trends

Its that time of the year.  Yes this is when we start looking at the future.  According to Future of IT study by CIOInsight ... in many different flavors (wireless, wired, etc.) and have benefited from lowered costs. 7. Sensors/Smart ... , is still flexing its muscles. IT executives show the same level of interest in RFID as in 2007, which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:05:32

Laminar Batteries Power Next-Generation Products

Issue #175 | Jan. 9, 2009 | by Dr. Peter Harrop Writing about printed electronics often as I do, the dynamics of the marketplace keep coming fast ... every year, the choice is coin cells. Coin cells are the favoured power source not just for active RFID ... based on old advances in color, shape and mechanical function are rapidly being overtaken. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:08:43

Warehouse Technology - from the old to the new

by Graham Mawdsley, Senior Consultant I first set foot in a retail distribution centre 30 years ago as a management trainee, ... flexibility, but even a small-to-medium size (and cost) example will often offer considerable ... of setbacks and ‘false dawns’, RFID still promises opportunities and benefits for introduction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:08:23

Links of the day

Event Summary: The Future of the Social Web Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect - nice Japan site recommendation from Dirk Trends in Japan » Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco - really interesting on two levels. Japanese smokers resisting an RFID payment system and tabacco companies making lemonade out of lemons by enjoying a way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 00:01:49

'Xmas futures, crystal balls?' - Festive Chinwag Live

I had a hectic day on Tuesday, as after speaking at the FreePint stand at Online Information I then headed into central London for the last Chinwag ... . He suggested that people worry about ID cards, but that nobody loses sleep over the data Tesco holds ... with an anecdote about attending a conference with 'active' delegate badges. Using RFID technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 08:55:12

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 6, 2009

A large portion of the westside in Erie PA has been shutdown since 4:30 am this morning when a guy with a rifle went postal. Baur Lane to Brown Ave, 25th to 21st Streets have been barricaded. The suspect fired a number of shots including at police officers. He also has set fire to at least one home and there are reports of up to 3 homes burning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:22:49

Bright future for OLED as longevity tops LCDs

Bright future for OLED as longevity tops LCDs Breakthrough in lifespan with mass-production imminent HDTV | 5 hours ago More tech news Flexy RFID tags can survive temperature extremes [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 07:24:57

MRI's Colorful Future

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health are working on technology that promises to ... can be thought of as microscopic RF identification (RFID) tags, similar to those used for identifying ... is flexible and could have other applications such as in enabling RFID-based microscopic fluid [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 12:11:26

SmarTrip Upgrades: Don't Hold Your Breath

SmarTrip card The notion that we'd all like to do more with our SmarTrip cards isn't new - we've been calling for such improvements for quite some ... indicated SmarTrip cards would be able to be automatically reloaded like E-Z Passes by the end of 2008 ... - including the oft-pined-for chance to have Metro and Metro-affiliated passes stored in plastic [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 21:13:25

Re-inventing the Shopping Experience: Intel’s Funky Check-out

Maybe Intel is learning a few tricks from Apple: design counts. The company is introducing sleek new self-serve check-out terminals. The kiosks work with the customer’s RFID loyalty card and provides in-store incentives and recommendations. One key feature is they use 90% less energy than standard cash registers. Green [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:15:38

The future of Data Warehouses

An article caught my eye in the Teradata Magazine this month - Steve Brobst, CTO of Teradata, outlined 4 areas he thinks will drive data warehousing: ... , strike me as having broader impact. While non-traditional data and in-database analytics (further ... , such as RFID information, will dramatically increase the volume of data and the need for timely [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 04:29:40

Eye Scans and Fingerprints=Future of Payment?

Scientists at UK based Barclaycard are developing futuristic biometric technologies that will make paying with body part scans mainstream. Contactless payment has gained in popularity recently, with RFID cards and key fobs leading ... to plastic in the next five to 10 years with new technologies to take its place emerging now. It could [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 15:53:47

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

Make Dinning Delicacies with Ease

The Sook Cut is a three-part concept by Adam Brodowski that makes delicious meals out of ingredients you may not know how to combine ... information, and stores a library of ingredients. You can touch and drag ingredients to build custom recipes ... it charge the Sook Cut and Touch appliances, it also works as an RFID scanner to identify [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 11:08:53

Cory Doctorow on the Bureacrash Podcrash

None other than Sci-Fi author, civil libertarian, blogger, activist, and TLF commenter Cory Doctorow drops in at the Bureaucrash Podcrash ( ... . Marcus’s guided tour through RFID cloners, cryptography and Bayesian math is one of the book’s principal ... on a number of policy issues, but I must admit that he’s a talented writer. I bought Cory’s Overclocked [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 21:56:07

Baghdad’s Post-Blast Wall Bibliothèque

As I kept flipping through the images in this gallery of Baghdad’s incredible blast wall murals, recalling fairly recent news of how the U.S. military had begun dismantling some of the barricades in Dora (a district in Baghdad), and even more recently how control of the Green Zone was just handed over to the Iraqi government, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:01:00

Government 2.0: Intelligence Renaissance Networks

This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here. Future planning is a big part of what the national security apparatus of the United States does, and it is incredibly difficult to do well. As the national security writer William Arkin relates [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 22:15:46

Venture Firms Pull Back, But Not for Long

Venture firms are sounding the alarm over what this current downturn might mean for their portfolio companies — and it’s not pretty.  While it’s true that great companies are built during downturns, it’s also true that plenty of entrepreneurs are going to be shut out of any sort of financing for the foreseeable future, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 04:01:04

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is a Manual for our Kids to Save the Future

The fates seemed to decree that I wouldn't review Little Brother ... , the Department of Homeland Security clamps down tight, tracking the citizenry with RFID tags, gait recognition scanners and advanced data modeling software. They set up a secret prison on Treasure Island [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 14:00:03

25c3: The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed

25C3: Nothing to hide 25th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2008 bcc Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany This year, ... enables us to identify devices from same manufacturing run. Watch RF fingerprinting of RFID to find out how that works for 802.11 devices and RFID passports. While we are on security topics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 21:30:32

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

Intelligent Cash Registers Concept

Intelligent Cash Registers ConceptIt makes perfect sense for cash registers to get smart sooner in the future, ... at the National Retail Federation show in New York on Sunday, and it is the system that they're ... functions seamlessly with Intel's latest processors. It will feature RFID card compatibility and rely [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:41:00

NanoNews

David RejeskiDirectorProject on Emerging Nanotechnologies Abstract:The National Research Council (NRC), which carries out studies for the U.S. National Academies, released a report in December that highlights the significant shortfalls of the Bush administration in identifying and addressing the environment, health and safety (EHS) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 11:33:00

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