Recent Marquette graduate Chris Hallberg has invented an RFID-enabled coffee mug that allows patrons of coffee shops to pay for their drinks without pulling out their wallets. The smug mug is built by sonically welding an RFID tag onto a coffee mug. A smug mug owner can put money on the chip, and a payment […]

The New Belgium Brewing Company is adopting an RFID asset tracking solution by Fluensee to help track, manage and improve the utilization of its 150,000 kegs. New Belgium will implement Fluensee’s browser-based AssetTrack application and passive RFID technology to provide better visibility to its keg fleet, monitor fill-to-fill cycle time for each keg, track the […]

The U.S. Department of State has announced that it will tag 10,000 mission critical IT assets using ODIN’s RFID turn-key IT asset tracking solution. The DoS has chosen the UHF Gen 2 passive RFID tracking system to save money, increase security, and reduce administrative burden. According to ODIN, the State Department’s agency-wide adoption of RFID […]

DIYer Wei-Chieh Tseng has created a robotic plush tail a la Super Mario Bros. 3 that uses RFID-enabled emotion cards (3 to be exact: angry, happy and sad) to remotely prompt movement from the tail. As seen in a video recorded by Wei-Chieh Tseng, the “mood tail,” which he programmed himself using Arduino, can either […]

Norton Health Care opened the doors to its newest hospital at Brownsboro Crossing in Louisville, featuring a fully integrated RFID tracking system designed to remotely monitor a patient’s location and medical status, track and inventory equipment and report the temperature of medicines and blood samples in the hospital refrigerators. “This entire hospital was designed from […]

HandGiene Corp. has developed an RFID-enabled Hand Wash Monitoring System designed to ensure employees follow established hand washing protocols. Under the system, each employee is issued an RFID embedded name tag. This tags are read by RFID enabled hand cleanser dispensing units and ancillary RFID readers that monitor employees as they move about the facility, […]

GAO RFID has announced the release of its “ultra-rugged” UHF EPC Class 1 Gen 2 RFID reader. The reader boasts a read range of 7 meters in open space and up to 11 meters in an indoor confined area and has successfully undergone drop testing from 1.5 meters on 6 sides. The reader also features […]

UK-based Ubisense has announced a new wireless deployment option for its Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS), allowing for greater ease in installation as well as reduced energy costs. With the WiFi upgrade, Ubisense sensors can now operate in a ‘wireless’ mode, where they only need a local power supply to communicate over standard WiFi networks […]

3M has announced the release of its Mini RFID Tracking Pad, a compact, low-profile reader about the size of a mouse pad. The Mini Pad comes with several features new to the 3MTracking Pad line, including user interface lights for a quick confirmation of a successful transaction or event. The device features USB interface, allowing […]

Designer Matt Brown has created a stylish new line of laser-cut RFID-enabled paper radios that, when placed on speakers outfitted with an RFID reader, can broadcast messages programmed into the RFID chip or changed the radio to a pre-determined station. Though the concept flirts with impracticality, Matt Brown hopes that the radios themselves will be […]