WOW!!!

these will change the way stores work, or any kind of asset managment for that matter. if the price is right. I hope there is an off switch though. The privacy inplacations are a bit creepy. stores could tally not only track what is on there shelves, but also where they bought their g-string, what kind of sampoo they are using, and what kind of car they drive. These could bring proximity based advertising to fruition. Gillette announced an order of a half billion RFID earlier this year, here is a link to some of problems that they are facing. i wonder if they are digestable?

I wonder what they taste like...

In my earlier life as an engineer ;-) I was working on RFID; so I worked out a paper called "RFID Made Easy" for a Swiss Company. Just in case your kind of interested.

http://www.emmicroelectronic.com/webfiles/Product/RFID/AN/AN411.pdf

-urs

Can't all this fancy rfid tag technology be wiped out by a shoplifter with a magnet that has a magnetic field strong enough to overload the capacitor in the transponder. Why do we spend so much money catching thieves instead of spending money teaching people that stealing is wrong. I the world so far gone that there is no hope that education might be more effective that shrinkage prevention rfid tags. No need to reply to this I know the answers already :(

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I saw this picture on Boing Boing. It's a ancient hard disk that probably fit about 256K according to a Boing Boing reader. This iDuck can hold 1000X as much as that disk drive. And these little 0.2mm RFID...