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Story: How to get consumers to swallow electronic tags
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 22 October 2004, 3:33 PM)
I think that Lupa's comment about RFID and consumers is very small-minded. The truth is that RFID can be used in a variety of ways to deliver consumer benefit. The most obvious example of this is the RFID child-tracking system installed in Legoland, which has the ability to track a lost child to within 5 feet of their location. Another example would be making high value items in your home 'smart'. This can help identify them when they have been recovered by police. RFID is even being used by a company called PharmaSeq to help identify mutant genes. This will help medical research and save lives.
And as for the intelligent fridge, contrary to it being "fairy tale", it has already been developed:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/369/1/1/
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