Search results for RFID
Salt and Paper Battery May One Day Replace Lithium Batteries
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Salt and paper battery can be used in many low-power devices, such as medical implants, RFID tags, wireless sensors and smart cards. This battery uses a thin-film which makes it an attractive ...
'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique ...
Intelligence inside metal components
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers ...
Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...
Computing project combats Blackjack card counting
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Dundee graduate has created a computer system with the potential to make the game of Blackjack fairer by detecting card counters and dealer errors.
Building the smart home wirelessly
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a report published in the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications device ...
Review: Wireless charging lets you cut the cords
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's a pain to keep track of the chargers that go with cell phones, media players and other small electronics. It's even more annoying to stuff multiple power cords and adapters in your bag when you ...
Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers?
Jul 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- To protect against skimming and eavesdropping attacks, federal and state officials recommend that Americans keep their e-passports tightly shut and store their RFID-tagged passport cards and enhanced ...
'Printed chips' could be boon for consumers
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process costing billions of dollars. But if a Milpitas, Calif.-based startup succeeds, making them ...
An intelligent system avoids forgetting things
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks. ...
Small companies add value by sharing commercial information
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small companies prepared to share commercially sensitive information can add value and develop new services for their customers, using a distributed track-and-trace software solution.
Intelligent blood bags
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These ...
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
Jul 11, 2009 |
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Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards ...
Manufacturing, reinvented
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the architecture, hardware and software that will enable super-agile distributed corporations capable of reconfiguring themselves on the fly. It promises to make 'made-to-order' ...
Barcodes for the rest of us: Tiny labels could pack lots of information (w/ Video)
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ubiquitous barcodes found on product packaging provide information to the scanner at the checkout counter, but that's about all they do. Now, researchers at the Media Lab have come up ...
