This year’s open house at Intel Labs Seattle featured a number of exciting new RFID projects in development, including a solar powered RFID chip, and “WISP,” a specially enhanced RFID tag. WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform) tags are unique in that they are powered by both UHF RFID readers and built-in solar cells. The […]

This year’s PICNIC technology and art conference in Amsterdam featured a number of “Social RFID Games” designed to demonstrate new, fun applications of the technology as well as promote social interactions among the thousands of people attending the conference. Attendees were given their very own RFID “ik tag,” which granted them access to the games […]

UPEK, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the release of new products from their TouchChip silicon-based sensor family of products. The new products are touting greater levels of security and ruggedness, easier integration and further compatibility with government and industry standards. Coming from the new developments, UPEK has as well developed more specific technology […]

Sara Johansson, a researcher for the Touch RFID project at the Oslo School for Architecture and Design, has developed a new plush dog toy designed especially for visually impaired children. Sniff looks like your average stuffed animal, but it comes with an RFID sensor in its muzzle that can interact with various RFID enabled accessories, […]

In a project designed to illustrate the “wirelessness” of wireless RFID technology, London design firm Berg has designed a Rube Goldberg machine using RFID-enabled devices that interact with each other in sequence to perform a simple physical task–in this case turning on a computer. The design firm teamed up with Norway Near Field Communication (NFC) […]

DAILY has released a new hands-free RFID-enabled attendance tracking system for ID badge identification at meetings, conferences, schools and other venues that require attendance management. The RFID attendance system instantaneously captures attendees’ data without the need of human intervention using DAILY’s DL8220 gate reader and passive RFID tags. The walk-through RFID attendance tracking system is […]

Motorola has released a new RFID reader designed specifically for installation on warehouse vehicles such as forklifts, trucks and mobile carts. The RD5000 is composed of multiple components, including RFID reader, motion sensor, battery pack, Bluetooth, wireless LAN and antennae, all contained in a single, wireless compact unit. Once installed on a vehicle, the RD5000 […]

IBM and Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices have teamed up to develop BeepN’Track, a new service that traces the movement of Implanet’s products–including knee and hip implants–across its supply chain to hospitals. The BeepN’Track service uses RFID to track medical devices from Implanet to hospitals. Prior to shipping, Implanet affixes an RFID tag […]

Smart Sensors Limited, a UK-based biometrics developer that originated at the University of Bath, has introduced a new iris recognition software development kit (SDK), called MIRLIN, that is capable of up to two million matches per second. This is the second version of MIRLIN from the company and its reported speeds would make it not […]

Dayton, Ohio’s new downtown technology park, known as Tech Town, is celebrating the grand opening of the campus’ first building, the Creative Technology Accelerator (CTA). The CTA will house the Dayton RFID Convergence Center, as well as the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST), and Weston Solutions. Tech Town took ten […]