Seattle, part 1

I'm currently in Bellevue, WA, a suburb of Seattle.  Tomorrow I'll be interviewing with Microsoft for a summer internship ... ago.  Sometime in the last couple years they've started sewing RFID tags right into the clothing ... detector in the SLC airport, I was setting off the metal detector despite my empty pockets, shoeless [more...]

Date: 2008-01-18 07:17:00

Blog posts (31) | Videos (24)
 

Liveblogging the Clinton Global Initiative Opening Plenary

Monday’s blogger meeting with Bill Clinton, I was surprised at how relaxed the security was for the meeting. Not so today ... a sensor that detected the RFID inside of my press badge and instantly displayed my name and picture on a connected laptop, a metal detector, a handheld wand that could detect the RFID in my badge [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 14:09:44

Windows Sensor and Location Platform

Windows Sensor and Location Platform is a new development platform from Microsoft that facilitates the use of sensors, ... , Light, RFID, Compass, Camera, Microphone, Temperature, Moisture, Motion detector, Traffic, Weather [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 06:24:44

First day at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

This morning I woke up far earlier than usual (6AM!) to get up to the 8am press meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting ... bag search, walking through a sensor that detected the RFID inside of my press badge and instantly displayed my name and picture on a connected laptop, a metal detector, a handheld wand that could [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 21:01:15

First day at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

This morning I woke up far earlier than usual (6AM!) to get up to the 8am press meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting ... bag search, walking through a sensor that detected the RFID inside of my press badge and instantly displayed my name and picture on a connected laptop, a metal detector, a handheld wand that could [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 21:02:40

Military challenge: Make spy data more accessible

Here’s an idea: Predator drones have no business being in Washington state. What they are talking about here is a total surveillance society ... analysts to detect and access sensors from different sources.” “Let’s say you’re an analyst, and you want (to find) out what’s going on in Bellingham, Wash., and you don’t know what sensors are available [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:34:06

Private firm may administer UK surveillance database

We’re living in a Twilight Zone episode. It’s time to roll back this global police state insanity now ... like these are worthless in the long run. In the first security crisis the locks would loosen.” ... , has been used as important evidence in 95% of serious crime cases and almost all security service [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 15:21:09

Build a Simple WiFi Detector

Build a Simple WiFi Detector October 3rd, 2008 by miked Lazlo shared this great little circuit ... of such a simple circuit. Posted in rf & rfid | [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 13:04:27

RFID aesthetics article

rfsqtags.jpg PingMag writes: Now, while strolling the booths at the RFID Expo that just took place at Tokyo’s Big Sight, we began wondering what RFID is used for best: as a button on a chef’s uniform to let him open the kitchen door; as an infant’s bracelet for a motion detector; embedded in boxes to trace [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 19:21:33

RFID aesthetics article

rfsqtags.jpg PingMag writes: Now, while strolling the booths at the RFID Expo that just took place at Tokyo’s Big Sight, we began wondering what RFID is used for best: as a button on a chef’s uniform to let him open the kitchen door; as an infant’s bracelet for a motion detector; embedded in boxes to trace [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 20:00:27

Lawyers Need More Rules and Regulations

I am of the opinion and many who study the legal industry or know from first hand knowledge that most lawyers are crooks ... profession more closely. We need rules and regulations for lawyers and we need to put RFID embedded sub-dermal chips in each lawyer’s nose. We also need lawyers to take a lie detector tests every six months [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:45:46

I can expose 60 names in Fresno

GUARANTEED.  I am referring to 60+/- names of deaths / poisonings / disappearances (ID theft) that will never be exposed unless this unsolved murder case is reopened.    1994 - Fresno, CA  William (”Bill”) Wyatt Polzin http://fresnorealestatefraudtheft.blogspot.com/2008/09/unsolved-murder-puzzle-fresno-ca.html   The connections lead to Albert R [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 22:21:47

Cory Doctorow–Little Brother (2008)

SOUNDTRACK: BE YOUR OWN PET-Get Awkward (2008). Be Your Own Pet are a bunch of young kids from Nashville.  Get Awkward is their second album.  According to the liner notes, two of them were born in 1988 and one of them in 1990.  1990!  They play three-chord punk music which focuses primarily on having fun and partying [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 14:42:28

My [public] Space: Exhibition Text by Petra Heck

Image by Eduardo Navas, December, 2007 Note: Diary of a Star is currently part of the exhibition “My Space” in Amsterdam, from May 23 to June 21, 2008. The premise behind the exhibition follows the line of thought I originally developed for Diary of a Star. Here is what the curator’s text states: With the advent of Web 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 20:53:13

An Overview of the Battlespace

UPDATED 1354 est 1 Dec 2008: Link and site disappeared overnight after creation of this post; just found this cached version. Read this essay slowly, click on the embedded links, especially this one, and make sure to read the comments as well. Use your bravo-sierra detector to sort the wheat from the chaff, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 21:47:29

Tools of the Trade - Sewing DNA Edition

Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them. http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/07/10/dna_sewing_machine [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 23:54:08

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Monday, January 5, 2009

If you were driving across West 12th Street Sunday evening and wondered what the heck was going on with all the police cars, there was a break in at a warehouse. City of Erie Police officers spent hours searching but the criminal got away before police apparently got away before police arrived [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:35:03

New State House Security Still Offline

We’ll admit it’s rare when a stuffed animal uncovers major breaking news, but such is the case with “Mr. Mouse,” who was dispatched to the S.C ... , what? State House employees were issued their RFID’s (Radio Frequency ID cards) back in the spring [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 13:39:41

A Brief Tour of the IT Innovation Space - Part I

1.- IntroductionThis Blog is focussed on how Innovation works in the Information Technology (IT) space. As the first entry in this Blog, it is natural to simply try to survey the field. This way we'll be able to map the field's structure, the issues and goals faced by the practitioners of this discipline [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 17:27:00

Microchipping Dogs

We've decided to microchip every pup that leaves here from now on. Why? First, it's an added benefit to our clients ... about, all microchips are basically the same. A little radio frequency identification (RFID) chip [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:25:09

World’s Most Portable Carbon Monoxide Detector Released by KWJ Engineering

World’s Most Portable Carbon Monoxide Detector Released by KWJ Engineering Author: admin September 4, ... -pocket sized carbon monoxide detector through digital readout weighs when exposed to one ounce ... ) September 3, 2008 — The latest progeny convenient carbon monoxide detector has just been released by means [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 14:14:10

taking black cure against the famine in your soul?Sony/Pioneer Planning to Tune Your TV Via the Web?

TV over Web control system by Pioneer, by the company which has an "illuminating" campaign going on now:eyes opened, beautifully evolved and transformed? (all pictures by Pioneer) "Kuro"- meaning "black" in Japanese - is the new product of Japanese company Pioneer [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 05:54:00

The Great RFID Reader Detector and Tilt-Sensitive RFID Tag

Guys, do you know what RFID is? RRID is a short acronym for “Radio-frequency Identification, ... data using devices called “RFID tags” or transponders. The technology requires some extent of cooperation of an RFID reader and an RFID tag. An RFID tag is an ... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 12:58:10

RFID Enabled Poker Table

You may wonder what is common between RFID tags and Texas Hold’em, for which Andrew Milner has an answer. Andrew has created an RFID enabled poker table which would allow the audience to know exactly ... to the wireless RFID chips at the bottom of the table and RFID tags on the cards. The RFID technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 10:46:53

RFID Reader Detector and Tilt-Sensitive RFID Tag

“Want to detect the presence of RFID readers? Want to control when a RFID tag is active or readable? We describe how to do both using bits of copper and card, and some readily available electronics hardware.” http://www.instructables.com/id/RFID_Reader_Detector_and_Tilt_Sensitive_RFID_Tag/ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 10:26:07

2500 SL: Benchtop Leak Detector

2500 SL: Benchtop Leak Detector The 2500 SL is a benchtop leak detector and seal strength analyzer was made for flexible, semi-rigid, and rigid packages. It provides leakage testing of flexible, semi-rigid and rigid... Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management XE3 Checkweigher Color-Eye® 7000A Spectrophotometer more... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 06:46:48

Talk About Alternative Energy! Why Not Generate Electrical Power From The Impact Of A Golf Club And Golf Ball?

Generally it is easy to dismiss golf ball locating systems as impractical or technically impossible ... in the capacitor circuit is used to power a transmitter to emit energy via an antenna, including [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 15:20:16

Bio-Rhythm Disruption Frequency Identifier for Human Intentions

It appears we have found many identifiers for Bio-Metrics to identify people ... . Some of the newest forms of security include retina scans, voice prints, palms, DNA, Implanted RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 17:41:53

Cell phones, RFID, Nano-particles, Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA), Morph technology, the RealID Act of 2005 and HD-TV

The events of 9/11/01 and the fear of terrorist attacks within the US provoked legislation to require forms of ID that cannot be easily forged ... , RFID and the use of software that can identify the features of photographs against the features [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 15:21:00

Windows 7 and Windows Sensors Technology

Ambient Light Sensors (ALU) are used to tweak the UI accordingly to the environment. Left to Right: Normal, strong light, little or no light Ambient Light Sensors (ALU) are used to tweak the UI accordingly to the environment. Left to Right: Normal, strong light, little or no light Windows Sensors is new and interesting technology [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 03:17:05

Improve your interaction with technology with DIY Tilt Sensitive RFID Tag and RFID Reader Detector

Improve your interaction with technology with DIY Tilt Sensitive RFID Tag and RFID Reader Detector ... to its inner workings but with the DIY RFID reader detector and tilt sensitive RFID tag the technology ... in which you can create your own DIY Tilt-Sensitive RFID Tag and RFID Reader Detector!! See full article [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:17:50

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