‘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 [...]