Hospital hazards, "Holy Crap" Department

We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) are used for this purpose as well as for security access. I have a device [more...]

Date: 2008-06-29 19:49:32

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FasTrak Toll Tag Prank

This is an evil, destructive prank and I really don't recommend you do this. But it's so devious, we thought you deserved to know about it ... booth without stopping to pay. FasTrak uses RFID technology to read data from a transponder placed in a vehicle. The RFID transponder in each vehicle is associated with a prepaid debit account; each [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 21:08:21

When Technology is Transparent

If you’ve ever had a “Toll Tag” - a device which lets you drive on toll roads without stopping to pay with cumbersome coins - you know the ... a grocery store that use RFID for auto-scanning items for checkout and bills your credit card on file ... t offer bar code scanning Motion backgrounds that stutter and skip behind song lyrics Microsoft [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 19:17:04

Crazy Rhode Island School RFID’ing Students

In a move that shows a blatant disregard for civil liberties and personal freedoms, a Rhode Island school district will be testing out a program that monitor’s student movement via RFID chips in backpacks. Right now, 80 children are using the RFID-equipped backpacks. Buses [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 15:07:40

Study Tackles Labeling Errors

With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID), to track ... . An RFID tag can be applied to or incorporated into an object so that it can be identified by using [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 14:15:44

Changing for the Better

Its been a couple of months since I last updated this blog so I wanted to do a quick post letting folks know what I've been up to and what is ... are positive. About six months ago I changed jobs. I'm now a senior consultant at SecureState where ... researching a number of topics including the security of RFID prox cards used in many access control [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 03:29:00

Privacy in an age of terabytes and terror

Scientific American magazine (SciAm) devotes the whole September issue to privacy in an age of rapidly developing technology ... surveillance: tools of the spy trade Night-vision cameras, biometric sensors and other gadgets already give snoops access to private spaces. Coming soon: palm-size “bug-bots”. How RFID tags could be used [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 06:47:44

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

'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

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

RFID Tags Enable 24/7 Surveillance [Part II]

in my last blog entry, I described how states on the U.S. and Mexican borders have begun to issue "enhanced driver licenses," which can be used at U.S. border crossings in Mexico and Canada. Each license incorporates a RFID tag encoded ... America and the U.S. government plan to use the massive amounts of data gathered through RFID tags [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 21:30:04

5 no-frill tactics to improve in ‘09

You can go ahead and send your wish list to Santa, but you’ll be better off forwarding a copy to the budget writers at your own company ... aging technology. If your warehouse management system (WMS) is more than 4 years old, it’s worth ... technologies, such as bar-code scanning or RFID. Prices are dropping as use rises. Monitor best practices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:28

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

NXT nibblets

I keep ending up with a list of things to mention, but not enough time to do it (or not enough material for a full post) ... involved. Take a look, and enjoy the music & presentation. HALE YouTube Mission Steve Hassenplug ... robots that casual observers can "program" by using RFID cards swiped by a sensor on the robot [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 12:54:04

Key2SafeDriving is aimed to keep kids from talking/texting while driving

Researchers at the University of Utah have created a device that they see as hopefully saving the lives of some teenage drivers who like to chat or ... within the immediate vicinity. It uses either Bluetooth or RFID to communicate with the paired ... this December Nokia Beta Labs launched early beta version Nokia Music PC application Pink LG Venus [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 09:03:02

Insecure by design

Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking?  However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07

Daily news beat for August 20, 2008

RFID's new utility in the datacenter. The No. 1 growth category for RFID tags is IT asset management ... information security. Related: Four exotic uses of RFID that just might surprise you. CRM host Salesforce.com scoops up InStranet, the maker of knowledge-based management products for call centers in a deal [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 17:40:07

The Matrix is Expanding

Homeland Security is now using a RFID Scanning device that will allow border patrol agents to scan your papers from at least 50 feet away ... on their own RFID scanners and "skim" your information from afar; effectively picking your pocket ... . These scanners are powerful enough to gather your passport and other identification through [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 15:37:39

IT: Internal Transmitters

What to all our internal transmitters? Well, perhaps you have heard of radio frequency identification tags or R. F. I. D. and if so this is the technology that will be implanted subdermal into humans for tracking. At first, RFID Tags will be used to track children in case they are abducted or to track child molesters [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 19:40:23

‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels

From American Free Press Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) are finding their way into and onto humans in many ways ... the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety reasons.” Some unverified ... of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID). Microchips will be attached [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 13:39:44

Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix

Dr. Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com) ... -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market ... extend the range of passive RFID tags, used for things like supply chain automation, asset tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 13:28:26

RFID Works For Big Brother

RFID Works For Big Brother British reality program Celebrity Big Brother is using Wavetrend active RFID tags to track the movements of the show's participants. By Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage Inventory Management Helps Build A Bridge: Glidewell... Case Study: Whiteman Airforce Base Keeps The B-2 Bomber [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:51:45

The Next Generation of Digital Media in Retail

Customers are now able to engage with Digital Media in a way that was never possible with passive aisle mounted large screens running TV style content. Using the latest RFID technology shoppers can now interact at the Point of Decision ... . The solution comprises of LCD screens and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagged products [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:56:27

e.Magiciens 2008

Tinker.it! had the great pleasure of helping curate the Lab space for the 10th edition of the e ... some physical challenges of their own through games. - The Dreaming Pillow project which i really loved ... as part of the event, we put together a voting infrastructure to allow visitors to vote, using RFID cards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 18:32:53

links for 2008-12-07

World's Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills ( ... mainframe desktop) Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon - Boing Boing Ten years time we could all be wearing those!!! (tags: RFID ITGS privacy security [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 04:02:46

links for 2008-12-07

World's Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills ( ... mainframe desktop) Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon - Boing Boing Ten years time we could all be wearing those!!! (tags: RFID ITGS privacy security [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 21:02:03

Mapping social interaction using RFID tags

I think this is pretty damn cool.In this paper we present an experimental framework to gather data on face-to-face social interactions between ... Identification (RFID) devices that assess contacts with one another by exchanging low-power radio packets. When individuals wear the beacons as a badge, a persistent radio contact between the RFID devices [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 23:53:00

Enabling Technologies (2)

Unintelligent gadgets. This includes devices such as sensors and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags ... of devices can pack a great of functionality in a small device. A good example of RFID in use is vehicle-tracking tags. The idea here is that a small sticker-like RFID tag is placed on the inside [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:43:10

Opening an Oyster with Crapto1

p2pnet news view | Security:- “A decisive breakthrough has been made in the cryptanalysis of the Crypto1 encryption algorithm of the MiFare Classic RFID system used in many contactless travel payment systems including the Transport for London Oyster card,” said Heise Online back in April, going on: “According to a newly published report [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 12:58:40

Fleury’s Open Remote is all about the software

It has been over five years since I started writing about wireless applications which live in the air, for home automation, ... , one-off solutions? There are some killer apps out there, applications which can use sensors, motes, and RFID connected by wireless networks to simple, Linux-based base stations. Linux because that’ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 13:02:45

The End of Privacy?

I've written an article for the September issue of Scientific American magazine called The End of Privacy? ... : Tools of the Spy Trade Katherine Albrecht, How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People ... in an Age of Terabytes and Terror Esther Dyson, How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security Anna [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 03:15:52

Smart contact lens feels the pressure of glaucoma

University of California, Davis researchers have made a contact lens with a built-in pressure sensor that could help monitor conditions such as glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Prototype lenses with pressure sensors (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH ... continuously, sending data out using a small RFID chip. (Source: http://technology.newscientist.com [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 02:45:23

Tagged and tracked at the toll booth

Are you one of those folks who loves the convenience of zipping through the toll plaza with one of those electronic toll-paying systems like FasTrak ... toll devices use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to broadcast information ... booth can receive it. Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through a parking lot [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 19:20:38

Rogers Wireless joins RBC and Visa m-payments pilot

This is an exciting development.  After reporting on the far east and their advances in types of wireless payments, ... Communication (NFC) that is described at Wikipedia as - a short-range high frequency wireless ... .  The answer is likely both. Others in Japan: Suica issued by JR East (Railway). Uses RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 04:44:48

First week in the Philippines

We arrived exactly one week ago and now we are renting a condominium somewhere between Ortigas and Makati ... using RFID badges in elevators, security camera and 24 hour security guards. Also, no one can access our floor without proper badges. The apartment is fully furnished. Fortunately we only a few minor [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 01:27:53

Enter the Best Teen Chef Competition 2009

Read More... | 4243 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 158 (1575 total stories) ... · GAO Offers Portable RFID Reader/Writer · Sell Used Cars Through CarCash.com · Serenity Health ... Today's most read Story is: 2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID Login Nickname [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:51:12

A New Year, An Old Story

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review, ... s analysis of the NXP Mifare Classic, an RFID chip used in fare cards for the public-transit systems” ... Published by MIT included this article - RFID’s Security Problem: Are U.S. passport cards and new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:09:37

List of mobile services and limitations

I believe that mobile is one of the most revolutionary thing happened in our lifetime ... - paper/photo, OCR - Barcode Reader Object Location Identification - RFID Dictionary/Encyclopedia ... /smart card) for uses such as parking lot fee, AVM, Pay any merchant such as autowala E-Books Teaching [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 07:03:39

Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates

Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates Posted by Gladys Erhardt at August 25, 2008 Cool or not? ... in Sydney next week using RFID tags embedded in conference badges. The move comes months after 50 academics ... in all my activities. Not unless these badges can be taken off during personal moments (like going to the bathroom [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 01:38:59

RFID's new utility in the datacenter

When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags. But today, RFID's biggest growth ... is now found in the RFID tagging of IT assets, especially those deemed high-value, says Michael [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 18:47:09

[Video] Behind Delhi’s World Health Organization Headquarters

My Saturday lunch with Amit, Ashish, Abhishkek, and Ajay was postponed until Sunday. So I decided to get on Delhi’s new(ish) ... token which I assume uses RFID to automatically open the gates. From Rajiv Chowk (Connaught Place ... things immediately catch your eye. One is a giant blue and white building, which it turns [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 08:56:56

RFID in Baroue Avenues

Thanks to an RFID-based tracking system, parents can drop off their kids at an indoor playground, ... by Mideast systems integrator TagStone using Ubisense RFID readers, tags and cameras and Ubisense’ ... s business development manager. rfid tag At the entrance to the Sea Serpent playground, each child [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 09:27:34

Finger Hack - A Young Man Implants RFID to use as wireless key for his Guns!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode We all know that one day the U.S. government will try to implant RFID chips in every U.S. citizen with social security, passport ... , you can take a look at this video of a young man who implanted an RFID chip into his fingers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 00:25:28

Accounting Best Practices: Steven M. Bragg

Editorial Reviews Review “Bragg, ... to common implementation pitfalls . . . I would recommend this invaluable book to anyone who is looking ... department. The use of RFID technology to track documents is one of many valuable tools in this latest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 01:50:51

First Data’s GO-Tags — the first step toward mobile commerce?

The mobile industry has been WOEFULLY inept at dealing with mobile commerce.  Appalling.  There’s a heck of a lot of hesitation going on ... . THAT would be excellent. First Data have published a white paper about this — Contactless ... card (the RFID card system used for the London Underground train service).  Swipe at a reader [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 14:32:49

Video: Japanese Robot Eats Bikes For Breakfast

Each day in Tokyo, over 700,000 people ride their bikes to catch the morning train and this creates a problem. Where do you store all those bikes? ... ). This implementation in Edogawa, Japan was built at a cost of $67 million and can store up to 9,400 bikes at one time. The method uses an RFID tag to identify your bike and costs only $18 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 13:45:00

Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America

More and more, George Orwell’s 1984 becoming reality—babies, students, elderly being ‘chipped’ ... one child in 2005. This may be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging ... Identification Devices (RFID). Microchips will be attached to the students’ backpacks next year. The American [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 08:05:49

RFID tracking 50 foot range admitted

New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PM By: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:57:30

Radio-Frequency ID Technology Takes Off

Federal agencies have deployed radio frequency identification technology to manage their assets, ... and transmitted over a distance of about 300 feet. Passive RFID tags have a shorter range, about 30 feet ... fast a letter moves through the international postal system. RFID technology uses readers that beam [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 11:20:19

RFID tags could help manage data center assets

Data center staffers are typically not employed to maintain inventories of hardware assets, ... adoption, said Jonathan Collins, U.K-based principal analyst by the RFID & contactless group at ABI ... of the extreme point of 2013. IT managers can use passive or active RFID technology. With passive [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:25:38

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