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Intelligence inside metal components

Intelligence inside metal components

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

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 ...


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

Technology / Engineering

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

(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 ...


GTRI is developing protocols for testing effects of RFID systems on medical devices

GTRI is developing protocols for testing effects of RFID systems on medical devices

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are widely used for applications that include inventory management, package tracking, toll collection, passport identification and airport luggage security. More ...


Students develop cane with e-tags to guide blind (AP)

Students develop cane with e-tags to guide blind

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A cane equipped with the technology that retailers use to tag merchandise could help blind people avoid obstacles.


Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers? (AP)

Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers?

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 9

(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 ...


Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears (AP)

Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears

Technology / Hi Tech

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

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 ...


TSMC Unveils First Commercial 65-Nanometer Multi-Time Programmable Non-Volatile Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announced the foundry segment’s first functional 65-nanometer multi-time programmable (MTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) process technology.


Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, simpler programming language for wireless sensor networks is designed for easy use by geologists who might use them to monitor volcanoes and biologists who rely on them to understand birds' nesting ...


New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials

New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices have widely been used for tracking for years; recently, scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed ...


RFIDs transmit through metal

RFIDs transmit through metal

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metal efficiently blocks radiation, such as that emitted by RFID chips - small data storage units that are integrated in various objects and transmit their information to a reading device. ...


Electronics from the printer

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic systems designed to perform simple functions, such as monitor the temperature on a yogurt pot, mustn’t cost much: This is where printed electronics are at an advantage. Researchers ...