Modern technology of RFID
Yesterday I have written an article related to online learning. Now I would like to write similar posting regarding online learning. Today I will talk about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). According to Wikipedia definitions RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 13:42:16
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Improving Expiration Dates
Many in the supermarket industry look forward to the days when all items have RFID tags ... , dramatically cutting stores’ labor costs. RFID image courtesy of SMARTCODE corporation via Wikipedia A new kind of RFID tag that University of Manchester (UK) researchers are developing could help reduce [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 14:41:46
Digital Angel Sells VeriChip Stake
Digital Angel Sells VeriChip Stake Posted by Sam Churchill on November 13th, 2008 Digital Angel, a leader in animal RFID and emergency identification solutions, announced today ... (wikipedia) makes pet RFID products using its patented, FDA-approved implantable microchip [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 23:11:31
Tokyo Disney World
Wanting a break from the stress of University life and to mark the start of my 3 months break, I followed my cousins to Tokyo a week ago ... what will happen if it’s in Malaysia? Another interesting fact is that none of the merchandises has RFID ... to Wikipedia. There are also 7 themed areas in Tokyo Disney Sea; Mediterranean Harbour, American [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 16:00:56
nEUROn UCAV Project Rolling Down the Runway
The Neuron project joins Britain’s Taranis UCAV, and the USA’s sort-of-cancelled J/N-UCAS program that includes the Boeing X-45C and ... grumman | uav | ucav RFID to Help Reduce Aircraft Turnaround — iata | Manufacturing | RFID ... | Supply Chain | wikipedia Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | Locations [more...]
Date: 2008-07-22 19:38:45
Europe to lead Web 3.0?
October 7, 2008 Image via Wikipedia This is indeed the aim of the European Commission which has just launched a public consultation on web 3 ... and technological issues related to the move from RFID and sensing technologies to the Internet ... of it? According to Wikipedia, Web 3.0 is “the term used to describe the evolutionary stage that follows Web [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 10:23:06
Research Links
Research Links Multi-touch on Wikipedia ClearTek II by 3M Gunze Touchscreens USB RFID Reader Olimex MOD — Sparkfun Mapletouch Matrix touch panel Keytec MagicTouch products NJY Touch Technology [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 20:39:17
The next 5,000 days of the Web
I finally got to look at Kevin Kelly’s TED presentation on “the next 5,000 days of the Web, ... and all the stuff we have and now take for granted, from online investing to social networking to Wikipedia ... inanimate objects from cars to shoes to will have connectivity. Whether through RFID or other [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 16:37:30
Tag, your it.
Did you hear about the possibility of inmates being tagged to keep track of them? It's one of the few e-Government projects that's going on here ... in the US since 2004. First one is the RFID implanted on the inmates *ouch* or they will wear wristwatch-sized ... from Wikipedia & the Dummies line... [more...]
Date: 2008-07-09 15:35:53
Ambient Intelligence and location aware web
Ambient intelligence(Aml) is explained by wikipedia asIn computing, ambient intelligence (AmI) ... around us mumbling 0s and 1s wrapping us inside its matrix... In the Wikipedia , you can read ... now in market.. all those smart home appliances,wifi devices, mobiles,RFID, GPS etc.There is a lot [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 17:07:00
RFID in fiction: The Traveler
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The commute to my (not at home) ... -Trilogy-Book/dp/038551428Xn and more on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Traveler_(novel) Well, it turns out that one of the tools of the Tabula is RFID. Their leaders have imbedded chips [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 20:02:22
Tech Wired Australia - Episode 69 - Show notes
Episode: 69 Date: 30/07/2008 Host: Ben Grubb Co Host’s: Brent Pudney @ http://www.saltwaterit.com “That Adam Kid” @ http://gsnail.wordpress ... : Walkers swallow RFID pills for science Listener Feedback Hi Ben and Brent, Just some comments on the proposed changes to Wikipedia to avoid vandalising of pages: The great multitude of topics [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 12:59:33
Truth or fiction?
A short movie review. Disclaimer: Please do your own homework. Be careful with the ideas you allow to establish in your mind. I’ve written this fairly open ended and used Wikipedia more than Jimmy Wales. In no means ... be familiar with this text. I recommend you read Wikipedia’s entry specifically the “Structure & Theme” [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 13:00:57
Here, There and Everywhere - The rise of the Ubiquitous Traveler
How ubiquitous plugged-in travel is becoming a reality Some of you might have noticed in passing reports last week about the beginnings of a ... with information processing mainly through a PC . However, as the Wikipedia article states, “ ... which is defined in its Wikipedia entry as, “A ubiquitous city or U-city is a city or region [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 16:51:30
The Fed's Web Takeover
What is the definition of “your data”? The answer may determine the future of the Internet – and, more broadly, of communications media, the users that derive value from them, and the marketers that depend on them. The combination of the word “data” or “information” with a personal possessive pronoun lies at the heart of the current debate [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 14:15:25
Tech: I
I've written another piece for hyper unreal slashy/slash youth, fashion, music, media powerhouse SuperSuper magazine ... now ... !! : _)I But of course Wikipedia is just the tip of the digital iceberg lettuce when it comes ... in its wake; where everything these days is tagged - meta tags, geotags, RFID tags, metags, thistag [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 10:09:00
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
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
Reader Mail #62
I liked this thread on the Mental Militia. Heller (from Heller vs. DC) applied for a gun permit. His application was rejected. That is really weird, since the Supreme Court specifically ordered that he be granted a gun permit. He didn't bring his gun with him when he applied for the permit, lest he be arrested for illegal possession of a gun [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 16:25:07
REAL ID in a nutshell
The REAL ID Act has sparked a lot of controversy — but what is it? The REAL ID Act of 2005 enshrines in law a set of federal standards for state ID and driver’s license authentication, issuance, and security protocols. Identification cards that do not meet these standards cannot, according to this law, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 22:23:06
Cell 3.0
Current wisdom suggests that blogs are much like fences: the best supported of each has frequent posts at regular intervals. We confess that the interests of Team Mambo have recently been focused on other creative endeavors, one of which is the indulgence noted in the sidebar, KultureKat [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 20:04:00
Monday, 8 December, 2008
I have gotten the new screen layouts working in the main window of the program I am writing at home ... Stupid Patent Tricks, Copyright and Other IP Nonsense Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay For Copyright Infringement “Patent Hawk” lawsuit was an inside job, says Microsoft Patent pools pushed in new [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:05:25
Media Centers: Alternative, Open-Source, Cross-Platform Solutions - A FLOSS Comparison
Looking for an open-source alternative to proprietary media center solutions from big brand names like Microsoft and Apple? Tired of buying into their own closed and proprietary business strategies? Here is a report showcasing you all of the alternative open-source media centers available out there. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 09:30:00
A Rabbit can do anything the Web can, it's true
CNN is running a feature story on the "Internet of Things," the near-future when the physical world will be networked in much the same way as text, ... in the 1980s and an active sci-fi guru, neologized the term 'spime' in 2004 to refer to any object that can define itself in terms of both space and time, i.e. using GPS to locate itself and RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 14:22:08
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
RFID Tags in Guns: Another Bad Idea
I read an interesting blog post discussing a proposed New Jersey law that would require each gun sold to contain a Radio Frequency Identification ( ... RFID) chip with the owners personal information. Tagging guns with RFID chips is a rather bad idea, as discussed below: Background information on RFID Tags As Wikipedia states, a Radio Frequency [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 06:28:15
Chapter Fifteen Excerpts: Peer Production and the Crisis of Value
Sometime in the next few weeks, I expect to have drafts of the last two chapters of my organization theory manuscript, Fifteen and Sixteen, online. From there, it will simply be a matter of working through the backlog of reading to fill in the gaps in the earlier chapters, polishing them up, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 22:04:00
RFID, TNO, Sonitor… and a potential conflict of interest?
Commenter follow_the_ money had the following to say on my June 24th post about a JAMA article raising questions about the safety of RFID in ... Author Affiliations” for the RFID study (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/299/24/2884 ... technology to RFID for real-time location systems which they are pushing in healthcare.They are heralding [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 14:38:06
Impressions On The Upcoming NFC Technology - Your Mobile As Your Wallet Or Ticket Or…
Fresh from a Q&A on three of Nokia’s upcoming innovations - Near Field Communication (NFC) ... your credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card all in one place: inside your mobile phone. Basically ... as your credit card and so on. Interesting and very desirable. So the first question that comes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 16:05:40
Idea generation #52: Internet of things
The Age has an interesting article on the Internet of Things ... that RFID or barcodes are simply one way of connecting atoms to bits. How would a browser for other ... more powerful sharing than ever before. If sharing information can get us wonderful things like Wikipedia [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 14:47:00
Stanford Business, Entry 14: Nike, PACCAR, Boeing, Amazon and Costco: Our Northwest Study Trip
Keeping up with our breakneck pace, we had our first out-of-town study trip last week, followed by the Stanford Thanksgiving break. I think I like the Stanford thanksgiving break a lot better than I liked the MIT break during my undergrad days; at Stanford, we got the whole week off. This was (no doubt) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 05:01:08
Happy Halloween! Have Some Way Weird Recordings
I love Halloween. I was bummed that I didn’t get to celebrate it as festively as I wanted to this year. I was really interested in executing this awesome jack-o-latern idea (it involved the carving of a backwards B, that’s all I’m gonna say) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 17:10:23
Ubiquitous Computing and Library Futures
Ubiquitous Computing and Library Futures ITI Bloggers October 22nd, 2008 I was intrigued by a talk on ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) ... . The computer will serve you rather than you serving the computer. Some examples include RFID chips in books ... address) Sensors (light level, sound level, temperature, etc.) Location awareness (an example [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 23:02:56
The Day I Became An International Rider
There is nothing like the dog days of summer for heat in metropolitan New York City, and they really get to barking in the first few weeks of August. But you wouldn’t have known that on this August day, when I decided to become an international motorcycle rider [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 18:06:00
Failed Predictions
Failed Predictions Predicting the future is a notoriously difficult endeavor and yet there is never a shortage of people willing to play the game, especially at the end of a year. Many of the predictions for 2009 seem to involve world politics. For example, over at Psychic World, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 23:28:47
How world-changing are the culture and politics of free software?
Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kelty on the issues covered by his book Two Bits, before Kelty’s joining of the UCLA staff in August 2008 ... that ‘geeks’ can be studied as an ‘alien tribe’. Much like the Australian aboriginals once, ordinary [more...]
Date: 2008-08-23 08:07:01
Top Ten Creepiest Technology News for June
The 10 most Creepiest news, articles I found online for the month of June ... ; Wikipedia EXPOSED!!! - Just Read it and let me know what he means. Microsoft Discloses Government Backdoor ... of a backdoor from Wikipedia: Is Wikipedia wicked porn? - Wikipedia, the online “free encyclopedia” written [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 14:13:39
TikiTag brings Web 2.0 Tagging to the Real World with RFID Tagging System!
Tikitag RFID tags Tikitag RFID tags Tikitags are the new revolutionary RFID tags that will change our lives forever through real-life tagging, similar to Web2.0 tagging revolution and blogs. Basically, you will be able to apply these RFID ... is Near Field Communications Technology (NFC) - an evolution of RFID that connects electronic devices [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 16:31:05
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
Mastering the Hype Cycle by Fenn and Raskino
You know you’ve got an interesting idea on your hands if it helps you build a fairly compelling case that the Amish are more sophisticated meta-innovators than Fortune 100 CEOs. Mastering the Hype Cycle by Jackie Fenn and Mark Raskino of Gartner, manages to do that about a third of the way through. Now, the Hype Cycle ( [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 01:05:24
What i think about event processing...
An amateur thought.I think the most interesting area of information processing is about event processing.Most of the large scale enterprise applications are based on event driven architecture.Event based information processing is the most advanced area i haven't gone through yet.But reading about it i found it really interesting [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 16:37:00
On the Culture of Free Software
On the Culture of Free Software: Interview with Christopher Kelty by Geert Lovink - It is still rare that anthropologists study modern technology, let alone the politics of free software. The Houston-based scholar Christopher Kelty, who just moved from Rice University to UCLA, has done precisely that [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 20:05:08
Week in Review for 11/23/2008
Quick News Links Released docs show feds can tap cells without help Documents received under a FOIA request show that a previously known technology, ... , such as JSON and AJAX currently rule. Nabaztag maker launches a home RFID reader The initial [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 16:58:59
Putting Visual Intelligence on the Map
thincVIew™: Putting Visual Intelligence on the Map Stephen G ... , the positions of emergency personnel with active RFID badges in a hospital, customer purchases through time ... -based mapping applications, these platforms do not permit rich analysis. The problem is that these web [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 20:30:21
MIRLN -- 5-25 October 2008 (v11.14)
**************Introductory Note********************** MIRLN (Misc. IT Related Legal News) is a free product for members of the American Bar Association’s Cyberspace Law Committee, et al., and is produced by KnowConnect PLLC. Members of the ABA Cyberspace Law Committee automatically receive MIRLN postings (about every third week) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 11:38:00
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve
After watching what has happened over the last year, ... American Union that uses a single currency, the Amero, without the ratification of Congress ... . The movie concludes that under such a government, every human could be implanted with a RFID microchip [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 18:05:00
Connecting online and off with rfid for the masses
The online and offline worlds are becoming increasingly interconnected, as our sister site trendwatching.com recently noted ... tikitag and Amazon.com for USD 49.95, contains one USB-enabled RFID reader and 10 RFID tag smart ... . Now, a new venture from Alcatel-Lucent is using a version of RFID to give consumers the ability [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 16:25:01
Links for 2008-06-10
poetpainter: ‘Inspiration from The Edge’ Presentation Stephen P ... ) SeeShell @ ::setbang:: johanna brewer “ … an augmented Oyster Card (the RFID-enabled Underground ticket) holder which displays, over time, the journeys a rider has taken … “ (tags: RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 06:31:59
People Who Are Terrible at their Jobs: ESPN's Gregg Easterbrook
BOULDER, Colorado -- The New Republic's senior editor Gregg Easterbrook writes a laughably-uninformed column about football each week for ESPN ... for soccer, experimented extensively with placing RFID chips in balls for the 2006 World Cup in Germany [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 20:02:45
Interview with Geert Lovink
Internet-famous activist and media theorist Geert Lovink just did an email interview with me about Two Bits. The questions were sharp and some of the very best ones I’ve been asked. The original is at Networked Cultures, but I’ve reposted it here as well [more...]
Date: 2008-08-24 16:08:23
