Heatwaves, a guerrilla trade war and victory for Brazil: welcome to 2010 – FT.Com

Posted by Matt in December 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Forecasts, Brazil, Chips, Egos, Financial Times, Guerrilla, Misses, Pundits, Punt, Reflection, Reputations, Stake, Trade War, Victory, Wits

Once again, the Financial Times’ top pundits have assembled to pit their wits against the fickle future. Some of them are recklessly putting years of calm reflection and carefully built reputations at stake, piling up their chips on what they foresee for 2010. Others are simply taking a punt, going for broke as they scramble [...]

‘Printed chips’ could be boon for consumers – San Jose Mercury News

Posted by Matt in August 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Boon, Chips, Consumers, Inkjet, Jose Mercury News, Limited, Mercury, Microchips, Radio Frequency Identification, Radio Frequency Identification Devices, Rfid, San Jose Mercury, San Jose Mercury News, tech, Types Of Printers

By using inkjet and other types of printers, the company plans to make radio frequency identification devices — so called RFID tags. Such tags traditionally contain microchips, but are so expensive now their use has been relatively limited.
‘Printed chips’ could be boon for consumers – San Jose Mercury News

Wire your house with RFID

Posted by Matt in July 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Access Cards, Access Codes, Chips, Electronic Devices, Electronic House, Geek, Inventory Systems, New Gadgets, Personal Privacy Issues, Retail Environment, Rfid, Technology

Despite criticism concerning security and personal privacy issues that surround RFID, the technology has become popular and commonplace in the retail environment. But there’s no reason why these new technologies should be confined to stores and inventory systems; they can be useful at home as well. RFID [...]

CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID “Death Chips.” Coming Soon to a Product Near You!

Posted by Matt in July 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, Beacons, Bob Woodward, Chips, Cia, Deploy, Deployment, Drone, Fabric, iraq, Open Literature, Pakistan, Pentagon, Reflectors, Rfid, Rfid Tags, Secret Terror, Secret Weapon, Slew, Strikes, tags, tracking, Urban Myth, Woven Fabric

It is hardly surprising then, that the Pentagon and the CIA have spent “hundreds of millions of dollars researching, developing, and purchasing a slew of ‘Tagging tracking and locating’ (TTL) gear,” Wired reports.
Long regarded as an urban myth, the military’s deployment of juiced-up RFID technology along the AfPak border in the form of “tiny homing [...]

Buying Night Vision, Nuke Gear? Too Easy, Investigators Find

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Military Tech, Body Armor, Chips, Danger Room, Digital Radios, Electronic Sensors, Explosive Devices, Gaps, Government Accountability Office, Investigators, Military Armor, Military Gear, Military Radios, Missile Guidance, Night Vision Goggles, Nuclear Weapons, Nuke, Special Forces

Night vision goggles. Missile guidance chips. Triggered spark gaps used to detonate nuclear weapons. Electronic sensors used in improvised explosive devices. Military-grade body armor. Digital radios employed by U.S. Special Forces. Tags, to let troops identify one another in the dark. That’s just some of the sensitive military gear that investigators from the Government Accountability [...]