These days' eco friendly products really catch the attention of everybody's eyes since we all know at the back of our minds that our environment is degrading day by day because of us and if we don't work towards mending it today we definitely will have to cry in the future.

Keeping this in mind Thin Battery Technologies has come up with a set of eco-friendly disposable batteries which can be used for powering RFID tags and a host of other items. These are carbon zinc batteries which work with both active and passive RFID tags. Produced in sheets these batteries can be customized as per the size and shape requirements and integrated with tags and sensors implemented in RFID systems.

The batteries are available under the TBT UT and TBT HD series where the former can be used in smart cards, transit tickets and loyalty cards and the latter can be put to use for power intensive applications. In terms of costs and performance these batteries can be rated between low-cost passive tags and expensive active and RTLS systems and in terms of standards they meet the RoHS and WEEE environmental regulations set up by EU. Let's see how far these batteries can go in setting our environment straight.

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How about a photo finish at your local race but who can afford those high speed cameras which start off at a whopping $25,000 a piece? Seems impossible for sure but why depend on those high end cameras when you have RFID out here to offer you the same excitement of photo finish even at smaller events.

Hardcard Systems and Alien Technology are making efforts to recreate that same magic with RFID and that too at just a few dollars per competitor. Up till now RFID was a perfect match for marathon races but tracking cars moving sixteen times faster than a runner was a problem but these people have worked out a solution and successfully tested the technology on bikes running past 140 mph and believe that it would work in the case of speeds above 200 mph too. An accuracy level of 1/100s has been achieved and some minor changes will enable this level to shoot past the mark of 1/10,000 level accuracy.

So get ready to experience the magic of perfect photo finish at your local racing event too. All thanks to RFID.

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Rescue operations after disaster strikes in a particular area can be an extremely difficult task but now there is no need to worry as RFID is out there to act as a helping hand in the rescue operations.

After Katrina struck America rescue personnel used to write codes on buildings to give groups coming behind them information regarding the status of the area. Working upon this idea German researchers have created an RFID extension of the coding system.

Under this RFID supported urban search and rescue concept humans and robots work together in disaster zones for mapping affected area and transmitting the information collected to the command center. The information is fed to the tag which is read via PDA. Under this system humans and robots work together for application of RFID tags to the buildings. This system will surely work towards carrying out rescue operations in a planned and quick manner.

Globally more than 34 million baggages are lost every year at airports and this is a fact. Even though airlines have started implementing RFID for improvement in baggage tracking but one real problem the airline authorities face is with regards to distinguishing between two tags. After realizing the complexity of the problem Alien Technology has come up with software for the tag readers. This is expected to make the job at the airport pretty easy as it offers information with regards to the position and velocity of tags thereby helping to differentiate between luggages being tracked. Earlier it led to more confusion for the authorities who would end up pulling out their hair.

Using this software it will not only be possible to differentiate between different baggages but even collect information with regards to the destination of the luggage and whether it has to undergo custom check or not. This free update is available for ALR-8800, ALR-9800 and ALR-9900 models and includes flexible reader distance with a range of 100 feet.

It's finally out!!! Here is the Nokia 6212 Classic cell phone with NFC technology. For those of you who are new to the concept of Near Field Communication or NFC this technology is an extension of RFID where the tag and reader feature together in a single device. Using it you will be able to make payments or exchange information with a simple tap which would certainly make your life a lot simpler.

You will no longer need to carry a wallet since Nokia 6212 Classic will be like an electronic wallet for you and you can simply load cash for making purchases or pre paid ticket credits. People who give utmost priority to security need not worry as the phone is equipped with in built security measures which includes password protection feature for every transaction.

Other regular features of the phone are 3G, 2-inch QVGA display, two mega pixel camera, music player, FM radio and microSD card expansion. Nokia 6212 Classic cell phone is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2008 in Asia and Europe for somewhere around £160.

It may pass off as another run of the mill phone to the layman but its NFC capability is something which needs to be counted upon. Probably I will have to throw my heavy wallet out of my pocket in favor of Nokia 6212 Classic.

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It's finally out!!! Here is the Nokia 6212 Classic cell phone with NFC technology. For those of you who are new to the concept of Near Field Communication or NFC this technology is an extension of RFID where the tag and reader feature together in a single device. Using it you will be able to make payments or exchange information with a simple tap which would certainly make your life a lot simpler.

You will no longer need to carry a wallet since Nokia 6212 Classic will be like an electronic wallet for you and you can simply load cash for making purchases or pre paid ticket credits. People who give utmost priority to security need not worry as the phone is equipped with in built security measures which includes password protection feature for every transaction.

Other regular features of the phone are 3G, 2-inch QVGA display, two mega pixel camera, music player, FM radio and microSD card expansion. Nokia 6212 Classic cell phone is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2008 in Asia and Europe for somewhere around £160.

It may pass off as another run of the mill phone to the layman but its NFC capability is something which needs to be counted upon. Probably I will have to throw my heavy wallet out of my pocket in favor of Nokia 6212 Classic.

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If you feel that RFID is a new technology then you need to spend a few precious minutes of your to read this post.

Let me tell you RFID is certainly not a new concept and its history can be traced back to the World War II. The American, British, Germans and Japanese had been using radars to identify planes entering their territory but which war plane was owned by a friend or foe became a Herculean task to identify. Realizing this problem the Germans found out that if their pilots rolled their planes while returning to their respective bases it would change the signal reflected back and probably this can be termed as a crude yet first passive RFID system. On the other hand Watson-Watt developed the first active identify friend or foe or IFF system for the British during the same time.

Fifties and sixties witnessed developments in the radar and RF communications system where scientists and researchers from US, Europe and Japan were involved in undertaking research with regards to this subject.

In 1973 Mario W. Cardullo got the first US patent for active RFID tag with rewritable memory. In the very particular year Californian entrepreneur Charles Walton was awarded the patent for passive transponders for unlocking door without a key. 1970s witnessed the US government undertake some serious work on RFID systems. Los Alamos National Laboratory came up with the concept of putting readers at gates of secure facilities and transponders in trucks which was commercialized by one of the laboratory scientist who developed automated toll payment system which received commercial acceptance. This era also witnessed companies develop low frequency systems with small transponders and it's still implemented among cattle around the globe. 125 kHz systems were commercialized over a period of time and companies started to move towards higher frequency which was unused in several parts of the world.

Bigger companies started realizing the potential of RFID in the nineties which saw IBM develop and patent UHF RFID systems. The early part of the nineties can be considered to be a lean period for the technology all because of the high costs and lack of standardization associated with it.

1999 can be termed as a golden year for the technology when EAN International, Gillette, Uniform Code Council and P&G created a fund for establishing Auto-ID Center at MIT. It was Sanjay Sharma and David Brock, both professors at MIT who thought about putting serial number on RFID tags to bring down their costs and this probably changed the manner in which the technology was viewed in the supply chain. They were responsible for turning RFID into networking technology and the rest as they say is history.

The period between 1999 and 2003 saw Auto-ID Center get support from more than a thousand end user companies apart from major RFID vendors and the U.S. Department of Defense. Research labs were opened up in various countries and the technology was licensed to Uniform Code Council in 2003 which entered into a JV with EAN International for commercializing the technology. The research responsibility was passed on to Auto-ID Labs and now big names from various sectors including names like Wal-Mart, Metro are implementing the technology whole heartedly. Some say it's just the start, what do you think?

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If you feel that RFID is a new technology then you need to spend a few precious minutes of your to read this post.

Let me tell you RFID is certainly not a new concept and its history can be traced back to the World War II. The American, British, Germans and Japanese had been using radars to identify planes entering their territory but which war plane was owned by a friend or foe became a Herculean task to identify. Realizing this problem the Germans found out that if their pilots rolled their planes while returning to their respective bases it would change the signal reflected back and probably this can be termed as a crude yet first passive RFID system. On the other hand Watson-Watt developed the first active identify friend or foe or IFF system for the British during the same time.

Fifties and sixties witnessed developments in the radar and RF communications system where scientists and researchers from US, Europe and Japan were involved in undertaking research with regards to this subject.

In 1973 Mario W. Cardullo got the first US patent for active RFID tag with rewritable memory. In the very particular year Californian entrepreneur Charles Walton was awarded the patent for passive transponders for unlocking door without a key. 1970s witnessed the US government undertake some serious work on RFID systems. Los Alamos National Laboratory came up with the concept of putting readers at gates of secure facilities and transponders in trucks which was commercialized by one of the laboratory scientist who developed automated toll payment system which received commercial acceptance. This era also witnessed companies develop low frequency systems with small transponders and it's still implemented among cattle around the globe. 125 kHz systems were commercialized over a period of time and companies started to move towards higher frequency which was unused in several parts of the world.

Bigger companies started realizing the potential of RFID in the nineties which saw IBM develop and patent UHF RFID systems. The early part of the nineties can be considered to be a lean period for the technology all because of the high costs and lack of standardization associated with it.

1999 can be termed as a golden year for the technology when EAN International, Gillette, Uniform Code Council and P&G created a fund for establishing Auto-ID Center at MIT. It was Sanjay Sharma and David Brock, both professors at MIT who thought about putting serial number on RFID tags to bring down their costs and this probably changed the manner in which the technology was viewed in the supply chain. They were responsible for turning RFID into networking technology and the rest as they say is history.

The period between 1999 and 2003 saw Auto-ID Center get support from more than a thousand end user companies apart from major RFID vendors and the U.S. Department of Defense. Research labs were opened up in various countries and the technology was licensed to Uniform Code Council in 2003 which entered into a JV with EAN International for commercializing the technology. The research responsibility was passed on to Auto-ID Labs and now big names from various sectors including names like Wal-Mart, Metro are implementing the technology whole heartedly. Some say it's just the start, what do you think?

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You love your pet cat but you can't say the same about your neighborhood cat. Here is SureFlap cat flap which grants access only to your pet cat into the house and bars unwanted guests. All you need to do is implant RFID chip to your cat which is recognized by SureFlap preventing any form of unauthorized access. The good thing is you don't need to put a collar or tag around the neck of your pet which always has a chance of getting lost. Your cat won't face any problems since the RFID chip which is of the size of grain of rice will be inserted under the skin of your pain in a painless manner.

In case you own several cats there is no need to worry as not one, two or three but details of whopping thirty two cats can be programmed in the flap. It has a four way manual lock which enables you to lock the door in any combination. You can mount it on all door types therefore go ahead and get one for your home since who would like unwanted cats to create ruckus in the house in your absence.

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Is your bottle of wine your first love? If yes then you need to read this. I believe Giuseppe Russo loves his wine and RFID too therefore he came out with the concept of Symposium RFID wine reader. This concept includes a combination of RFID wine reader and temperature regulator.

In order to make it work you need to attach RFID tags to your wine bottles and the RFID reader will perform its job of informing you about the details of the wine. So before taking the first sip from your glass of wine you get interesting information about the vineyard, producer of the bottle and any cultural references to the drink. There is also a thermal base plate which maintains the wine at optimal temperatures so that your wine tastes good whenever you uncork the bottle to consume it.

This would certainly make your wine drinking sessions more enjoyable since you will get to know interesting details about your wine which up till now appeared like just another bottle of wine to you. RFID has also given you a chance to visualize your wine from several angles. Now who said Wine and RFID don't mix together?

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Have been using those simple keyboards for ages? If this is the case then the time has come to move ahead in life. Here is Smartboard G83-6675, a keyboard with inbuilt RFID reader. It's aimed at applications requiring high level of security which at the same time can be carried out with ease and in a cost effective manner. This 105 key keyboard measures 458 x 170 x 52mm and is backed by a two year guarantee.

Secure systems will now get additional security as only authorized operators will be able to use this RFID keyboard. It brings together contactless and contact reader technology making it a good option for numerous card applications. It is ISO14443A/B compatible and can read cards up till a distance of 20mm. Since it's a Class 2 reader it includes secure PIN entry which ensures that the PIN gets transmitted to the chipcard without involving the system hence ensuring protection against Trojans.

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I was on a lookout for a birthday gift for my mother and hopefully I won't have go about searching for one whole day coz I hate shopping like most of the men around. So here is this cute looking bag which deploys RFID technology to make it more efficient. Dubbed as Project Lady Bag it uses RFID tags to keep a track on items inside it and icons pertaining to missing items appear on the LED screen on the outside of the bag. It even gives a hint of our emotional side with emoticons displaying whether you are happy, sad, angry or nervous.

My mom would surely love it since everyday she forgets her cell phone and medicines before leaving the house and this bag could certainly change her habit for better. Now I am waiting for it to reach the shelves so that I can pick one for my mother!!

I was on a lookout for a birthday gift for my mother and hopefully I won't have go about searching for one whole day coz I hate shopping like most of the men around. So here is this cute looking bag which deploys RFID technology to make it more efficient. Dubbed as Project Lady Bag it uses RFID tags to keep a track on items inside it and icons pertaining to missing items appear on the LED screen on the outside of the bag. It even gives a hint of our emotional side with emoticons displaying whether you are happy, sad, angry or nervous.

My mom would surely love it since everyday she forgets her cell phone and medicines before leaving the house and this bag could certainly change her habit for better. Now I am waiting for it to reach the shelves so that I can pick one for my mother!!

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Have you checked the Smart SuperBrand RFID wristbands? If not then you need to. The shape of these RFID wristbands can be customized as per your convenience with an option for branding and added protection against counterfeiting.

Created using non stretch plastic these wristbands are waterproof and offer comfort to the wearer. Sealed RFID tags are attached to these wristbands for storage and transfer of data. These SuperBrand wristbands use patented PDC Secure Snap closure to prevent any form of data transfer with an option of unique ID number. Customization is offered in terms of one or two color printing. It gives a very good branding opportunity for companies who can advertise their brands on this wristband. Companies related to the field of hospitality and entertainment would find it pretty useful.

In the past few weeks I have been highlighting how artists have adopted RFID in their creative work. In some of my earlier posts I have talked about Shisha embroidered RFID wristbands, medical alert bracelets, iTea concepts which have focused on the creative side of RFID and in continuation of my efforts to highlight the work of various artists today I will talk about Meghan Trainor who moulded the technology along with her creative work. This is probably one of the earliest work of hers where RFID embedded objects were able to trigger audio pieces. In the pics below you will get to see how an interaction is formed with objects by scanning control pieces and numbered graphite pieces are scanned for triggering audio…