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Playing RFID tag with sheets of paper

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are an essential component of modern shopping, logistics, warehouse, and stock control for toll roads, casino chips and much more. They provide a simple way to track the item to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technology tracks birds visiting feeders

To study bird feeding and breeding behavior, ornithologists used to tag birds with colored bands and then painstakingly track the birds' activity. But now, an existing technology repurposed for tracking birds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The NutriSmart system would put RFIDs into your food for enhanced information

(PhysOrg.com) -- RFID, short for Radio Frequency ID, tags have found their way into a wide variety of applications. These pellets, which are often roughly the same size as a grain of rice, can help us to be ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10 | with audio podcast weblog

Ink with tin nanoparticles could print future circuit boards

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost all electronic devices contain printed circuit boards, which are patterned with an intricate copper design that guides electricity to make the devices functional. In a new study, researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Go-anywhere tracking of first responders with WIISARD radio-frequency system

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are hoping that a device the size of a business card will one day reduce the toll of human lives in disaster situations.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Ski resorts storm the slopes with new apps

(AP) -- This season, there's more to technology on the ski slopes than the new shapes in skis. As skiers and snowboarders head online to book vacations and then brag about it, Colorado resorts are amping up ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ultralow-power memory uses orders of magnitude less power than other devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- As RFID tags are becoming more widespread for tracking and identifying almost anything, researchers are continuing to develop cheap, ultralow-power memory devices for these applications. In ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Cool! Researchers find way to use HVAC ducts for wireless monitoring technology

A new study by a team including a professor from North Carolina State University has found a way to implement wireless monitoring technology - with uses ranging from climate control to health and safety applications - by ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Timber with antennas

In the future, wood-based radio tags will optimize logistics processes in the forestry. These RFID transponders consist of paper and lignin, an integral part of plants. Thus, they do not disrupt the processing of logs and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Countering the counterfeiters -- smart technology to secure product supply chains

(PhysOrg.com) -- Counterfeiting is a huge problem. Luxury goods are a favourite target, but so are vital products including medications and aircraft parts. European researchers have created a new way to stem ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nano-based RFID tags could replace bar codes

Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Record performance of dual-gate organic TFT-based RFID circuit

At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Holst Centre, Imec and TNO present a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage. For the ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

RFID tags to boost transit worker safety

Trackside transit workers may soon be sporting RFID tags to improve their safety.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

(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 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears

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 ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3