The TagZapper (picture on the left) has been developed by US-based West End Laboratories to be a light […]
Category Archive: rfid
Osaka is turning to high-tech systems for preventing/dealing with crimes. In addition to RFID-based mobile messaging service, special […]
Thailand IC-Design Incubator is now developing a speaking drug label that will soon allow anyone to follow the […]
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The Memory Mirror, developed at the Everyday Computing Lab, aims at helping people remember tasks that have to […]
Radianse has developed a single-use active-RFID tag for patient location. The wristwatch-sized device can be slipped onto a […]
Naoru-kun, a new doll by Bandai , responds to RFID’d objects. The toy speaks 150 different phrases and […]
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Brittan Elementary School, the only grade school in a California rural town, is requiring students to wear FRID […]
RFID in Japan reports on an electronic tag (the yellow piece) which can be attached to your tv […]
Drivers could face tolls on congested roads in Greater London under plans to uses roadside beacons to detect […]
Bar Soba, a nightclub in Glasgow (Scotland), is about to offer its regulars the option of having a […]
Apparently, 200 RFID condom vending machines were installed in Shanghai last November. As part of the activities related […]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Japan developed a technology that combines RFID tags and cameras and makes elevators wait […]
An RFID tag, manufactured by SurgiChip, that patients can affix like a bandage to ensure doctors perform the […]
Kindercity, a science park for children in Zürich (Switzerland), tags its young visitors with an RFId microchips. Instead […]
French startup Dentalax has launched an RFID-based system to reduce errors and improve productivity in the development of […]
The Object-Based Media group at the MIT is developing a revolutionary system of computerised fabric patches called BYOB […]
Japanese company CITIZEN has developed a “wearable security tool” called CertifGate, which looks somewhat similar to the Active […]
Yesterday, I blogged about Big Brother in US supermarket carts, now he’s arriving in Japanese shopping baskets. NTT […]
Gaetano Borriello, a University of Washington computer scientist has developed a working prototype of a smart swatch system. […]
Kevin Ashton, now at RFID start-up ThingMagic talked to USA Today about ideas about RFID that are floating […]
TekVet System spots unhealthy animals by monitoring their body temperature using a small wireless device attached to the […]
GlobeRanger, provider of RFID, mobility and sensor-based software solutions, and Cadre Technologies , innovator of logistic systems, are […]
Miyagi Prefecture’s Fisheries Association in Japan is developing an RFID-based system to prevent fishermen from “stealing” fish from […]
DoCoMo Sentsu will develop a 2D-barcode system for tracking fish meat. In a pilot test will take place […]
Transport for London is set to spend up to £34m on new digital enforcement technologies for the Congestion […]
RFID in Japan is back from hols (?) and has a series of entries about new uses of […]
NEC designers have created design possibilities with near future paradigms in mind: ubiquitous technology, smaller hardware, and expanding […]
South African company iPico Holdings has created the Electronic Number Plate (ENP) RFID technology, already deployed in a […]
Researchers from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) have developed the Radio Frequency Identity and Geometry system consisting of […]
The UK government is considering to tag trash. A “clean neighbourhoods” bill should to be introduced this autumn […]
Cabot Superior MicroPowders (CSMP), is developping printable electronics, such as antennas and transistors, made of conductive inks and […]
Up to this year, visitors of the “FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL ’04,” an open-air rock music festival in Japan, […]
Started by two developers from Toronto, RadioActive is the first open source suite of RFID applications. Currently in […]
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is to try out RFID to keep track of its 44,000 […]
Smart System Technologies (SST) is deploying an RFID payment system across two National Football League stadiums—in Seattle Seahawks […]
The technology not only threatens consumer privacy, it could allow hackers and tech-savvy shoplifters to fool merchants by […]
The Federal Drug Administration is moving closer to approving the use of RFID to identify patients and/or permit […]
An unnamed retailer operating in US and Europe is planning to trial by the end of this year […]
British Telecom is promoting the concept of pervasive healthcare computing to try to persuade drug companies and the […]
Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods will develop new sensory dairy packaging that can monitor its own shelf life […]