French Passengers may have the option for USB tickets

Riding the train is always a time consuming process of waiting to buy a ticket, then waiting in line to use the ticket ... his or her USB card, the fare will be deducted from it via RFID reader or from an attendant ... , what do you do with the guy who says: “I paid for it, I did. I don’t know why your RFID reader isn’t reading it.” I guess [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 17:41:10

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Two New California Privacy Protection Laws Go Into Effect

Every year the Consumer Federation of Californiamonitors, supports, and opposes numerous bills related to privacy protection ... Reading of RFID without an Individual’s Knowledge and Prior ConsentRadio Frequency Identification ... for tracking and identification purposes. When a RFID reader emits a radio signal, the devices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:36:00

CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security

mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery ... channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on a scheduled conference call along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 22:40:00

Exposing Contact Patterns

SocioPatterns.org aims to shed light on patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity ... , emerging technologies such as active RFID devices offer previously unfeasible means for collecting ... small tags with integrated active RFID technology, henceforth called the beacons. These beacons [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 22:59:35

The RFID and the saguaro

As somebody who used to have a front yard with a saguaro cactus, I understand why people pay up to $1,000 for them ... inventory. Photo: backlitcoyote Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Tags: crime • environment • internet of things • plants • RFID Related posts Will cleaner fuels raise [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 19:11:32

Tikitag arrives in India

1 Comment All the BEST for results. Don’t forget to update your result in comment section. Highest scorer (among UnwireIndia readers) ... announced last fall, is now available in India. The RFID-enabled systems offers a way to link offline objects to the digital world. (more…) Categories: Feature, RFID Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Tikitag [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 06:31:44

Violet Mir:ror - new system connects up the whole world via RFID

The good folk at Violet, purveyors of the Nabaztag Rabbit, are launching a new product on Monday ... system and a newly designed RFID chip in the form of stick-on labels called Ztamp:z. ... . The Mir:ror system is a consumer oriented RFID system (reader and tokens) which lets anyone [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:35:47

Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time

In a long article today, CNN explores the Internet of Things and to some of the thinkers on the topic, ... web of objects is RFID (Radio Frequency Identity) technology, which allows things to be “read” ... about themselves and their relationship with their environment, over time. The reason why RFID is often called [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 14:45:52

Mandatory Chipping and Adverse Tissue Reactions

by Michael G. Mickey(12-15-08)The following are excerpts from an article in the Jakarta Post dated today: ... ...Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration four years ago gave the green light for RFIDs ... reaction.While the data are inconclusive, there are also suggestions that implanted RFIDs may cause cancer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 00:04:00

Would You Like to Carry Your Medical Records…under your skin?

What are you visioning for your health? Medical records embedded in your arm. Is this the future of health? Read on. ... and their families safe,” says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal. If you’ ... . Microsoft wants to get under your skin HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips Bill Ray [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 20:40:18

"MARKETS: Healthcare, wireless may still thrive in 2009"

While almost all segments of the electronics industry will be flat or decline in 2009, a few exceptions are possible, according to ABI Research, ... year. Likewise, the use of Wi-Fi technology for healthcare will continue to expand and RFID technology could even benefit from the tough economic times, since RFID tags increase operational efficiency [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 18:52:00

25c3: The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed

25C3: Nothing to hide 25th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2008 bcc Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany This year, ... enables us to identify devices from same manufacturing run. Watch RF fingerprinting of RFID to find out how that works for 802.11 devices and RFID passports. While we are on security topics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 21:30:32

links for 2009-01-14

uktrains / FrontPage Twitter feed for UK train delays, with details of how it was done. (tags: twitter hacks api apis) ... RFID kit • Register Hardware "The people at Violet want to make RFID a rather more fluffy experience ... nabaztag rfid spimes spime hacks hacking arduino projects) Deus Ex Machinatio: WTF is an ARG [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:05:46

Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage

Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage Glass container maker Ardagh Glass, as well as Coca-Cola, Coors and other beverage companies, are using facsimile bottles with built-in active RFID tags and sensors to identify sites ... Mechanical Thinks This Might Be The Big One! Integration Story: Laredo's Water Department Uses RFID To... more... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 19:53:40

2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID

Read More... | 3400 bytes more | Score: 0) New Guide Helps American Manufacturers richmilton writes: ForeignTRADEX.com, an international industrial trade portal has published three new marketing guides for American manufacturers seeking trading partners and the Middle East industrial [more...]

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

RFID-Powered Mir:ror Ties Physical Objects to Digital World

Violet, a company devoted to building products based on “calm and emotional technologies,” recently unveiled their new Mir:ror device. The cleanly designed product resembles a USB-powered cup holder, but it’s essentially a simple RFID tag reader paired with some innovative software. The idea behind Mir:ror is to streamline [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 02:24:07

SWF to Video Converter Series V 3.3 Released

Read More... | 4273 bytes more | Score: 0) GAO Offers 125kHz (LF) Handheld RFID Reader W / LC ... Technology - Electronics - Hardware gaorfidinc writes: This portable reader is a Data Collection Terminal designed to scan RFID tags and store their ID-codes in journal memory based together [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:44:09

Cali, Nevada, Massachussets Pass Data Security Protections

New protections at the state-wide level are being enacted, covering a wide range of topics from RFID tags to encryption. Here’s a look at the states moving forward now: California — Our Governator passed a law making it illegal to secretly scan RFID tags He then killed a bill that would limit the amount of time [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 16:44:03

Arphid Watch: Chair Follows You Around For Constant Seating

(((Okay, it's just conceptual -- even a Roomba can't navigate that snappily -- but what a cute design treatment and what a nice soundtrack on that ... is for Openbare Bibliotheek Endhoven, and it's fantastic. What you do is swipe your RFID-enabled library ... , be sure they haven't been hacked for RFID identity theft.))) http://gizmodo.com/5016550/rfid [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 13:37:48

Videos: DIY Swiss Army Knife Style Keyring

This is an extremely cool DIY keyring project, that providing you the right tools, should take roughly five minutes ... Room Security (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip From a Card (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip ... . Unfortunately my car key has a built in remote, which means the keys would not bunch together [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 09:07:03

Lawmaker wants to study implanting tracking devices on sex offenders

Rep. Al O'Brien, D-Mountlake Terrace, a retired Seattle police sergeant, ... . The group would report back to the Legislature in December. That RFID technology is what the state ... their ankle bracelets, so too would some of them scratch the RFID tag out from under their skin. Here's [more...]

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

Video: an everywhere world (RFIDs, tracking, the Internet of Things)

Some good snippets here - and some of some quite scary, too: "An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 11:27:15

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

ForeignTRADEX Promotes U.S. Manufacturers & Export

Read More... | 3617 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 139 (1381 total stories) ... on Web · LF/HF Metal Mount RFID Tags Can Perform Well · Neo Humanist Foundation · Kick Boxing Plays ... . Old Articles Wednesday, December 10, 2008· GAO UHF GenTop Standalone RFID Reader [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:22:08

TechEd Australia RFID badge Surface application

preview image If the standard Microsoft Surface demo applications doesn’t cut it for you anymore then check out this custom application built by an Aussie Readify consultant Tatham Oddie in just two days who hadn’t seen a Surface until a day ago (sponsored by Amnesia actually). Since all TechEd badges are RFID-enabled A special sticker [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 13:09:29

Tikitag: Personal Tagging

This isn’t the first idea of real-life geotagging but a new system called Tikitag certainly looks to be the most successful. Think of it as a personal RFID system with a receiver and some sticky tags. These are fully programmable in the sense that you can associate any URL with the RFID tag. Throw it on a pack of condoms [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 13:10:08

Pacemaker Wireless Power Off Exploit and Countermeasure

A recent study by Kevin Fu, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Medical Device Security ... . After WISPer receives a sequence of wireless requests from the RFID reader, it emits constant ... generated by the Alien ALR-9640 nanoscanner, a UHF RFID reader running the EPC Class 1 Gen [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 16:26:32

2008 | This year's top 10 lifestyle & leisure ideas

We're deviating from our regular schedule to bring you the best new business ideas we've spotted over the last 12 months—smart concepts that will ... & off with RFID for the masses Hello Health — Platform for healthcare 2.0 checkyourimage.com — ... SNIF Tag — RFID collar tag helps dog owners meet new friends Maggie & Rose, Cupcake — Members [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:17:54

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

Big Brother celebs not just being watched, but tracked

Housemates in the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother are already being watched by scores of cameras around the clock ... behind Big Brother, selected Wavetrend -- a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) specialist ... . But now their precise movements are being tracked thanks to RFID technology installed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:53:02

Picnic Network 08

*I'm at Amsterdam at PICNIC. Holy mackerel, this thing is huge. *And they've got "social RFID games," whatever those are. http://www.picnicnetwork ... PICNIC's content can also be consumed virtually, see below for more details of our RFID games, online social networking, mobile application, widget, live feed, live report aggregated content, weblog [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 12:41:07

Can your wallet protect your credit score?

You might already be one of the people using the new RFID credit cards ... with RFID is that it is relatively exposed to wireless identity theft.  There is one company out there that is staying ahead of the curve - Kena Kai, a brand that Luggage Pros now offers, has created patent [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 20:53:46

Advanced ID Acquires Chinese RFID Firm

Advanced ID's Hong Kong subsidiary, Advanced ID Asia Pacific, says it will acquire Shenzhen DDCT Technology, which specializes in development, production, and sales of RFID/UHF hardware, including UHF readers, and antenna tags throughout Asia. Following a letter of intent signed last month, both RFID-related companies have completed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 21:48:22

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12

Wavemark-Lumedx RFID technology helps Florida Hospital reduce costs

HealthCare Management was recently informed of a product launch that could potentially, help hospitals lower their inventory costs, improve tracking of medical devices, and positively impact patient care. The new RFID technology enabled system is being launched jointly by Wavemark: a market leader in real-time inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 07:12:05

divide and conquer - absolute power corrupts absolutely - the cashless society

So, they global ruling elite are striving for a single world bank (that's a monopoly), a single world government (that's a dictatorship) ... by implanted RFID chip (a cashless society). No, this is not Mike Philbin (retirw eht) thinking ... -building model that's been proven again and again not to work.One tiny problemette I have with the RFID [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 10:06:00

Geekdad invents the best Lego Sumobots ever

This is what the ill-fated Lego Spybotics should have been. Master Lego Mindstorms builder (and geek dad) ... RFID sensor, he's created cards with pre-programmed attack and defense moves on them. The kids just decide which cards they want to use, pass them over the RFID reader on each bot, and they're ready [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 19:50:03

Bush Administration: Dismiss RFID 'Mark of the Beast' Lawsuit

By David Kravets EmailNovember 13, 2008 | 6:20:32 PMCategories: ... by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark ... at Michigan, which adopted RFID requirements last year. The case should be dismissed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 14:31:01

25C3: Many RFID cards poorly encrypted

25C3: Many RFID cards poorly encrypted http://api.postrank.com – Karsten Nohl, the security investigator who had a big hand in cracking NXP's Mifare Classic chips, says many RFID smartcards from other manufacturers are also vulnerable to a simple hacker [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:29:52

Acai Berry Supplement Reviews Website

Read More... | 3263 bytes more | Score: 0) 125KHz Reader with RFID Low Frequency Technology ... Technology - Electronics - Hardware jackpan writes: DAILY RFID recently released the 125KHz low ... and so on.With a very good performance,it provides a very low cost, only about 28USD. Posted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 01:56:13

Cash Advance Payday Loans Canada

Read More... | 2441 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 157 (1564 total stories) ... · cyn.in Announces 25% Discount to SuiteTwo Customer · GAO Offers 433MHz Active Handheld RFID Reader ... · KWizCom Announces SharePoint Wiki Plus Version 1.2 · RFID Vehicle Tracking System Operating in UHF [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:03:22

Signposts for the Week Ending Oct. 17, 2008

UX designers aren’t the only one who look to Starbucks for inspiration in their work ... s just pretty! RFID might finally get the kick in the pants it needs to start living up to it’s potential with GE’s battery-free sensor breakthrough. The new platform uses a conventional RFID tag coated [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 04:20:43

DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent’s Services Play

While DEMO is primarily a showcase platform for standalone startups, well-established companies launch products there too. This year Alcatel-Lucent has brought an internal startup pushing an RFID tag reading system ... , tikitag is a set of RFID- and Near Field Communication-enabled tags and a corresponding reader [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 08:19:40

The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society

Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, September 6, ... when a RFID reader emits a radio signal. The chips are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “ ... 2008Antifascist Calling… RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings If incorporating [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 17:29:50

SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave

January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30

HIV/AIDS Sufferers to be Tagged With Tracking Devices

Lawmaker John Manangsang, seeking to curb his province’s high-rate of HIV infections, ... with RFID chips simply because they suffer from the common cold. In other words, once the Indonesian ... , Indonesia, Jean Luc Picard, John Manangsang, Papua, patients, RFID chips, sufferers, tracking Share This [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 14:30:11

Poker Odds

Aussie Designs RFID-Enabled Poker TablePoker News Daily - 4 gen 2009Viewers watch through a players perspective and are given odds by a separate program that are generated once a card is drawn. Milners table, however, .Aussie Designs RFID-Enabled Poker Table - Poker News Daily Kevin Nealon helps raise money for Tahoe charityLas Vegas Sun [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:24:50

You Scratch Our Back, We’ll Break Yours

Maybe Wal-Mart doesn’t understand how products are made ... is now demanding that suppliers implement radio frequency identification (RFID) to replace bar codes. According to reports, implementing RFID will increase the cost burden on suppliers by 20 times the cost [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 19:51:41

25C3: State of the art wearable computing

from the Embedded Systems Lab at Passau came to 25C3 to talk about Cyborgs and Gargoyles: ... linux computer under his coat which was attached to an RFID reader on his wrist. He would read the patients RFID wrist band, which would display their chart on the screen. He could then scroll [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 15:00:31

The Mir:ror Is A Consumer Level RFID Reader For Your Home

The makers of the Nabaztag Rabbit are at it again.  This time around they’re offering a device called the Mir:ror.  It plugs into your computer via USB and displays information associated with objects ... :ror package includes RFID stickers that you place on the object and once you’ve associated an item [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 20:39:00

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