Violet, the French company behind the RFID Mirror, the world’s first RFID reader designed exclusively for home use, is boxing up its trademark bunnies and filing for bankruptcy, according to engadget.com. Violet first introduced RFID into American homes with Nabaztag, their “mutlipurpose interconnected rabbit.” The Nabaztag is indeed shaped like a bunny. It talks, moves […]

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) […]

New York Department of Motor Vehicle officials were expecting to issue more than 1.5 million enhanced driver licenses, but so far only 200,000 have been issued, according to the Star Gazette. EDLs are used in place if passports for crossing the U.S. or Canadian land borders. The state had initially expected $66.4 million in annual […]

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 […]

The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) has ordered that all cattle must be tagged with CCIA-approved RFID tags as of January 1, 2010. Consequently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will strike bar code tags from the approved animal tag list. Since September 1, 2006, RFID tags have been the only CCIA-approved means of tracking […]

Alien Technology has announced that its new Higgs-3 RFID IC’s will now come equipped with an extra security feature called “Dynamic Authentification.” According to Alien, Dynamic Authentication incorporates a challenge/response algorithm which defeats static cloning attempts of the Higgs-3 IC. This feature initiates an interaction between the reader and the tag whereby the tag’s signature […]

FleetMind Solutions has developed a new Web-based solution for Waste and Recycling companies that automates garbage collection using RFID technology. Similar to the system in place in Australia, FleetMind’s solution requires each garbage bin to be outfitted with an RFID tag that corresponds to the customer’s address. Waste workers can quickly verify cart details by […]