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You are being watched
With hidden cameras seemingly everywhere and RFID tags increasing, what are the implications for our lives? David Lyon is studying the ceiling in an Ottawa coffee shop, searching for hidden cameras. A leading figure in the fast-growing field of surveillance studies, the Queen’s University sociologist is only too aware of the many ways we’re all [...]
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Future Store Demo
Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.
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Smart Shopping
Ed Hill from Intel’s Embedded Communication Group shows a internet-connected kiosk and cash register for retail stores. These could help shoppers find exactly what they didn’t know they were looking for, order items, and have them shipped from the store, and even pay using their smart phone.
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100 billion new computers
RFID technology will be used in billions of things in our world – and these tiny chips will also be fused to brain tissue.
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NTT combines Java & RFID, for loyalty cards
NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to loyalty cards that promises to simplify their use. Loyalty cards are big business and are often handed out to customers when they have made a purchase. Consequently, people end up with wallets stuffed with too many cards. When cell phone carriers began rolling out electronic [...]
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The Smallest RFID Tag for Jewelry
DAILY RFID recently announced availability of the jewelry industry OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) RFID tag, designed to automate Jewelry tracking in retail, wholesale, or secured storage applications.This RFID OEM tag enable entire trays of tagged jewelry to be simultaneously scanned into an RFID-enabled system within no time, eliminating the need for individual scanning and increasing [...]
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RuBee a Rugged Alternative to RFID
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved a standard for RuBee, a technology that is a bit like RFID but can be used in harsher environments such as underwater or in firearms. Steel, liquids, animals and people, among other things, can disrupt RFID (radio frequency identification), according to Visible Assets, the small company [...]
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Future Store
Video showing the process of RFID and other smartstore technology in Europe’s Future Stores.
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Wal-Mart – Do-It-Yourself is easier for RFID
Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club division announced a dramatic drop in its compliance penalties for failure to put RFID tags on pallets sent to its distribution centers. Initially, Sam’s said that failure to meet these deadlines would result in modest “chargeback” penalties – $2.00 per pallet initially, and $3.00 per pallet in 2009. Even at these levels, [...]
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