All the stories tagged with rfid

Texas School Dismisses Student After Refusing To Wear RFID Chip

01/20/2013, Now this is a rather interesting nugget of information to cap your weekend – a Texas high school ruled in favor to prevent a girl from attending her classes last Friday since she had made up her mind not to [...]

Smarter Socks ensure that your socks never go missing again

09/24/2012, One might resign oneself to the fact of life that socks tend to miss their partners after a round of laundry, while at times, some of the design on the socks look way too similar to other pairs, that it [...]

Burberry London flagship store gets digital makeover

09/13/2012, Taking a couple of years for renovation work to be completed, Burberry’s Regent Street store in London, all 44,000 square feet of it, has been digitally integrated seamlessly throughout. We are talking about having full-length screens wrap the store, making [...]

Wakestock festival uses wristbands, ditches paper tickets

06/20/2012, If you are attending the Wakestock festival this summer, you will be part of history as Wakestock is the first multi-day festival in the UK which will no longer rely on paper tickets for entry, but rather, encourage the use [...]

RFID tags to prevent birds nest counterfeit

05/28/2012, RFID technology does not only help schools keep track of where their students are at all times, ushering in the era of a digital leash, it will also be utilized to stop the sale of counterfeit birds nests – a [...]

RFID tags track kids in Texas school district

05/28/2012, The world was a whole lot safer in the past, where parents allowed their kids to roam around freely in the neighborhood without worrying about some random or ill feeling stranger bundle their kid in the trunk of a vehicle [...]

RFID Beat Box makes music with RFID tags

12/15/2011, RFID tags are normally used for identifying and tracking objects but that doesn’t mean you can’t do anything else with them. Some modders have decided to turn this implement this technology in a more creative way – by creating the [...]

RFID hangers add new dimension to shopping

10/17/2011, Retail therapy is another nice way of describing shopping, and it is most devastating to the bank account balance when one does so with wanton abandon while being on an emotional roller coaster. Well, those who happen to live or [...]

Smart jeans could be too revealing

09/23/2011, OK, when we mention about a revealing pair of jeans, what is the first thing that comes across your mind? Most people might think that those jeans have been cut so short that it looks more like hot pants made [...]

Mini RFID device holds your medical data

08/08/2011, When it comes to getting the right kind of medical attention during an emergency, you would need to inform whoever is attending to you on the allergies that you have lest you be given medication which you’re allergic to, hastening [...]

RFID tag system allows you to pay for your parking easily

08/03/2011, When it comes to entering paid car parks, sometimes the angle of the ticketing machine may be angled weirdly which will make it inconvenient for you to reach out and grab the ticket. Having to line up at the cashier [...]

RFID tags in hotel towels cut down on theft levels

04/26/2011, Travelers can be a peculiar lot – just ask any hotel manager and they will tell you that in their long years of service, they would have come across many different kinds of personalities as well as customers who will [...]

RFID drink machine says “Change? What change?”

04/05/2011, The idea of a drink vending machine is a cool one to say the least, and is definitely a departure from having someone in the flesh prepare a drink for you. Apart from that, it beats having to go to [...]

Item-level RFID tags get support from major retailers

02/09/2011, If you’re fussy about privacy and not fond of Big Brother, then this probably is bad news for you. ABI Research has released a report stating that more than three-quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in global [...]
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