RFID in Japan is back from hols (?) and has a series of entries about new uses of the technology in Japan, among them:

– In a library at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, customers can retrieve RFID’d book locations using their own mobile phones.

– Fuji Xerox developed an RFID-powered copy/print machines: users show their RFID cards to the machine which retrieves corresponding document files. Users can print without using computers.

– Takachiho Koueki plans to introduce to the market early next year an RFID-based video rental system. Each video has an RFID tag and a EAS (anti-theft) tag. When a customer rents one, he/she inserts the tape into a check out terminal’s slot. The terminal reads the attached RFID tag and displays the rental fee along with other information.

I feel terribly frustrated not to be able to read Japanese as I might have been able to understand what’s behind the new “RFID system for tracking pigs.”