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
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Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course
Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course The Northern Californian startup company is one of several that have recently launched race-timing ... › Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels › RFID ... solutions involving passive RFID EPC Gen 2 tags and interrogators. DOD Needs to Enforce [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 09:18:21
BizTalk RFID Printing: Successfully adding your Zebra Printer to RFID Manager
There I was with the a new toy - Zebra R110Xi Printer and a 600 page instruction manual, including a 300 page Zebra programming language reference and an RFID section ... - I wasn't printing on labels (yet) where some care needs to be taken, loading unloading etc. Let's [more...]
Date: 2008-08-08 03:38:58
You've already used RFID
Image via WikipediaHave you ever walked out of a bookstore and walked between the unassuming shoulder-height bars at the door? ... (or security guard) will approach you to see what set it off.Guess what? That was an RFID tag printed ... higher for barcodes. What's keeping RFID from replacing barcodes is privacy issues and standardization [more...]
Date: 2008-04-13 00:59:00
IT Planet Security Cameras
If you are an entrepreneur opening up a retail store, bank, or just an office, ... has a variety of other products in the categories of label printing, ID card printing, point of sale, RFID, and security systems. Check out IT Planet today for all your security needs. Bookmark [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 00:00:21
End Times Prophecy
Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 19:30:03
End Times Prophecy
Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 11:45:02
End Times Prophecy
Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 23:15:10
RFID: Convenience or obedience?
Printed in The Boar 7/8/08 An emerging technology is expected to make a “pervasive impact on every aspect of civilization” in the same way the ... at the end of this sentence. The second is an antenna or “transponder”, typically a flat, metallic ... society. That technology is RFID. If you renewed your passport in the last few years, check the back [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 11:48:36
Printed Circuit Board Tracking with RFID
Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) ... integration appliance, Gen 2 RFID readers and Texas Instruments' RFID Gen 2 UHF chips. The off-the-shelf ... -floor management. The manufacturing pedigree information is automatically programmed into the RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 11:49:28
Little Brother
I've been traveling a bit lately and have been putting in a lot of hours completing a major project, so haven't been posting on my blog much ... Noise Signatures How to block/kill RFID chips Photo-emulsion Screen Printing A full set [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 01:26:15
NanoMas Pulls in Big Name Investor for Nano-ink
NanoMas Technologies, a startup that is developing inks containing silver nanoparticles for solar and other applications, ... could be used for printable solar cells and flexible and flat panel displays, as well as RFID tags ... , the technology is ideal for printing electronics on temperature-sensitive materials, including paper and plastics [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 20:07:06
German Court Finds WG-Sensorsense GMBH Has Infringed A Key Sensormatic® Anti-Theft Tag Patent
German Court Finds WG-Sensorsense GMBH Has Infringed A Key.. ... For... Avery Dennison Launches New RFID Durable Tag Printed Electronics - The Magic Arrives Group Demonstrates 5.9GHz DSRC Packet Sniffer more... Motorola Handheld RFID Readers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 14:21:27
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
This Week's Top Posts (10/30)
Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams: Pete's Blog (Peter Farland) ... Designer ES to create and print RFID labels LiveCycle Doc Team blog: LiveCycle 8.2 Service Pack [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 16:30:07
Eyewear Retailer applies RFID to eliminate shoplifting
Santa Fe Optical applies EPC tags to all of the frames it sells, helping it to eliminate shoplifting and streamline inventory management ... has a number printed on it—the same number encoded to the RFID chip inside the tag. At that time, employees manually input the RFID tag number into the store’s inventory database, along with other information [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 10:10:46
Better sensors will reduce food wastage
Advances in sensing technology will help reduce food wastage, causing a loss of 10 billion pounds ($20 billion) ... . The new printed sensors are based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and will be modified ... annually in Britain alone, according to a report. Sensors can detect early indications of food [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 07:07:40
Live Stage: The Internet of Things [Amsterdam]
The Internet of Things - Network Notebook Launch :: October 28, 2008; 5:00 pm :: Waag Society, Theatrum Anatomicum, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam :: ... and the all-seeing network of RFID by Rob van Kranenburg. Rob examines what impact RFID and other ... to act This issue is free available in print and pdf form. To receive a copy of The Internet of Things [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 21:15:07
Free biometric time and attendance software
Is your organization still using the old time clock to track employee’s attendance? ... Finger Print Devices - scans the fingerprint of the employee Proximity Card Reader (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 12:22:08
Passports....
Mom and I have to renew our US Passports soon, before the expire. Since we are both such intrepid world travelers, of course ... in a remarkly efficient online form that creates a .pdf file for you to print out and sign. Get your 4 passport ... . But it really does include an RFID chip in the card, so they can "scan" you and look you up even before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 03:24:00
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
Barcode Equipment Purchase Online
I used to work in a small local printing factory as Customer Service Executive and during that time, ... . There you can try Barcode Discount, an online barcoding, RFID, point-of-sale equipment and labels ... . For example, zebra 2844 label printer will be one of the branded printers that you can shop [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 08:26:27
Low-cost nanotechnology substitute for gold and silver in printable electronics
Ink-jet printing of metal nanoparticles for conductive metal patterns has attracted great interest as an alternative to expensive fabrication ... and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Nobel metals like silver and gold are preferred ... -cost applications such as RFID tags with required unit costs below one cent. A new technique [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 02:46:27
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009
Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share ... Europe and the EUEurope Develops RFID License Plate TrackingItaly: WWII Supreme Court Explains Why ... : Threatened Algerian Writer One Year in ItalyTunisia: Emigrant Revenue Grows by 10% in 2008 Israel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00
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
Chains of trust, questionable origins
If I wanted to print US Dollars at home, I’d need the printing equipment, the paper stock on which to do it, and the magical ink ... in the case of identification systems: passports and REAL ID driver’s licenses. Consider this article from the Washington Times. The raw materials to make a new RFID passport, namely, the blank [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 13:47:54
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
ASK and WS Packaging to create a Joint Venture in the US
The expert of RFID and the expert in packaging share experience to develop contactless in the US market Paris, Cartes show, November 4, ... manufacturer of labels, WS Packaging Group was the perfect partner to boost our activity of RFID tags,” said ... based on a silver antenna on paper substrate and die chip attach process. So far, 130 persons [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 15:29:00
Nissan Helps Develop A Smart-Key Phone: Unlock and Start Your Car With A Call
I’m a bit of a futurist; I like to speculate about new technologies ... print full sized A4 paper from your phone via an extendable arm and you’ll be able to project high quality video onto a wall via a mini projector. Maybe eventually we’ll have credit card swipes or RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 18:08:31
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
DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General
DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General Many suppliers and contracting officers are failing to comply with the U.S ... Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate ... . Defense Department's directive for applying passive RFID tags to certain shipments, according [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 20:03:29
Visa Partners With Nokia to Offer RFID-enabled Services
Visa Partners With Nokia to Offer RFID-enabled Services The credit card company will leverage Nokia's newest Near Field Communications (NFC) ... Printing's Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate Shared Equipment › Schwarzenegger Signs Anti-Skimming RFID Measure But Vetoes Bill [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 23:57:09
Chapter XIV: The Cost of Government
So What's Wrong with Big Government?Taxes at all levels currently consume about $5 trillion out of a $14 trillion economy, or more tan a third of the Gross Domestic Product. The federal budget alone consumes about 20% of the GDP. There are of course great debates about the effects of such large expenditures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:01:00
One-way bridges and interim solutions
In my previous post about QR codes I made a couple of points which, after receiving some interesting comments, I’d like to expand on. “I see them occasionally on blogs/web-pages but I just don’t much see the point of that” Shortly after making this point, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 11:03:32
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
This is our 6,000th post on Wilson's Blogmanac. Thanks to Baz le Tuff for tipping me off about this story about RFID, ... before. The IDTechEx report Active RFID predicts that sales of active RFID systems, including tags ... s boom times ahead Sales of technologies based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, the automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:45:34
Arduino Workshop, Finally
Transient Technology For about 18 months now I've been looking into transient technologies ... of things, as well as internet connected peripheral devices, both sensors and actuators, are moving ... and time aware applications (Spimes), RFID tech, Chumby and Nabaztag etc. That is why I proposed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 18:29:11
Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu
Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu Military warehouses at Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay are using EPC Gen 2 RFID to track inbound and outbound supplies and equipment. Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder The mobile device ... a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital › Walgreens Opens RFID-Enabled Distribution Center [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 23:58:23
Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder
Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder The mobile device encodes EPC Gen 2 tags and supports both thermal transfer and direct thermal printing technologies. University Students Create a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital The group ... organizations to test RFID implementations prior to physical deployment [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 14:38:47
Alien Technology Closes $38 Million in Funding
Alien Technology Closes $38 Million in Funding The RFID tag and reader vendor says its investors were heartened by the company's product revenue, ... Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate Shared ... RTLS at EPC Connection 2008 The company, a startup with a revolutionary approach to RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 10:17:13
Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing
Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing See how Nancy's Specialty Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of quiche, ... is the world's cutting edge antenna technology manufacturer for RFID applications and is dedicated to providing antenna solution to any RFID application, including: portal near field, handheld, forklift [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 02:55:41
Tech and Media News Linkapalooza
Now You Can Get A Latte AND An Espresso at Your Bookstore — The Espresso books-on-demand printing system was first unveiled at the beginning of 2007 ... across this news item about a plan from SD-card maker SanDisk and four of the major record labels to sell [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 16:11:31
Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels
Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels If the tags meet performance and cost criteria, ... distribution of their products. RFID News Roundup TransCore unveils tag designed for most toll-collection systems; Mines near the Arctic Circle will use RFID; Charleston Inn using Capton's liquor [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 04:45:04
Zebra Technologies Announces the RW 420 Route Palette, a High-Efficiency Solution for the Mobile Workforce
Simultaneous housing and charging of the Zebra RW 420 and Motorola's rugged mobile computers and enterprise digital assistants deliver convenience and efficiency VERNON HILLS, Ill., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zebra Technologies (Nasdaq: ZBRA), a global leader in specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, [more...]
Date: 2008-07-05 12:39:25
Holidays Gadget Deals
This holiday season, it seems highbrow concepts are better off making their commercial debut in low-tech gadgets. Nabaztag, an electronic device shaped like a rabbit, can read you weather forecasts from the Internet [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 18:25:29
ThingMagic to showcase solutions at RFID World
ThingMagic Inc. is bringing along a few friends to RFID World ... drawer with an embedded RFID reader that enables customers to use existing T64x laser printers ... . The RFID developer’s Las Vegas booth this week will feature demonstrations by Jamison Door [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 20:40:00
Researchers Create Printed Circuit Lattices Of Transparent Nanotube-Based Transistors
Researchers Create Printed Circuit Lattices Of Transparent.. ... Announces Actions To Reduce Manufacturing Costs And... Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue ... Industry's First Multi-band, Multi-mode... M/A-COM Technology Solutions Introduces Direction Of Travel RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:49:07
Using LiveCycle Designer ES to create and print RFID labels
LiveCycle Designer ES lets you create and print RFID labels to capture data. RFID (radio-frequency identification) is an automatic identification technology whereby digital data that is encoded in an RFID tag ... . Using RFID does not require the tag or label to be seen in order to read its stored data. obtained [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 19:25:33
Finding New Markets by Tracking Channel Partner’s Customer Satisfaction Scores
It’s time to question the assumption that the largest channel partners and resellers deliver the highest levels of service ... for example in bar coding and now RFID is attributed to this strategy. Concentrating on the value [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 22:40:37
RFID @ TechEd 2008 Update - Your/my Privacy concerns
Hi folks - over the last week or so I've had many requests about what's happening around privacy and what does it mean to get a "Tag" this year ... on a very cut down alpha variation - together we cut the code and got about 5 mins of RFID activity [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 15:11:33
NiceLabel Suite 5.2.0.2224 - Professional Labeling Solution
nicelabel suite NiceLabel Suite is a fully-featured, modular labeling solution for label design, ... Suite a perfect and easy-to-use, wizard driven tool for any labeling requirement, including RFID, compliance labeling and more. Click here to proceed to the Download Page © maxdugan [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 19:00:31
