After a brain surgery the physicians need to know if the surgery was a success or if there have been complications which in worst case scenario could lead to the patient’s death. The University of Illinois in the United States developed a RFID technology which can be placed on top of the patients’ skull for monitoring and it is self-dissolving. Is this a breakthrough for the physicians? It has been a success in the laboratory, but now researcher want to find out if this medic

On the yoghurt pot, on the water bottle or the cereal bar - no matter where you can find a 1D barcode: the game "Barcode Knight" transforms these to monsters by scanning them against whom you need to fight with swords. It is a nice little amusement with barcodes. Hey little EAN code what is your transformation? The game design from the nineties: in the retro app "Barcode Knight" you are a hero, you basically play a knight. You can dress it, put on different helmet and play wi

With the "Blockbuster Pizza Box" you are able to do two things at once: Eat pizza and at the same time - thanks to the QR-Code and a smartphone - watch a movie. Therefore the pizza box transforms with only a few grips in a sneaky little movie projector for your home theater. Big pizza with big lenses It comes in four different designs, but one thing they all have in common: a big lens in the center of the pizza. The idea for this interesting marketing promotion comes from the

The firmware of the PANMOBIL tools builds the interface between you as the user and the hardware in the device. How to install and download the firmware for the PANMOBIL tools, Fabian Schönhoff explains in our support video. #support

Brewing beer is an art itself. It is not really possible to read about it in the internet and to try it at home. The temperature has to be exact; the mixing of the ingredients has to be perfect and so on...But to give the fans all over the world the opportunity of the art of brewing beer and be able to try it at home, "Brewie"makes it happen. That is a beer brewing robot, which conjures a tasty beer with the help of RFID technology and you actually can present it to your gues

Coughing, sniffing, fiver: a lot of people walk into the pharmacy so that they feel better sooner. Amongst others the business of pharmaceutical forgery booms in winter time. Especially in the United States pharmaceutical forgery in the amount of 1.5 trillion US-Dollars are in circulation. To fight these people who basically play with human lives, scientist of the University of Bradford in UK developed so called "Nano Barcodes", with which genuine medication can be engraved

Last Christmas these were a highlight as a present and the manufacturer still promote their special safety massively: special cases or wallets with a secured space where your credit cards are kept safe from criminals, who try to read your card information with RFID from a distance and copy their information. Several security professionals and Blogger take a closer more critical look at the new wallet protection. Is it a manufacturer game with the fear of customers where there

Tasty! A donut restaurant chain in the United States thought of a special discount promotion: a barcode made out of frosting. Mesmerizing spectacle Every year the restaurant chain "Krispy Kreme" comes up with a new and crazy promotion. This time the headliner was a glazing machine. In a three minute YouTube video you can see, how a machine pores many wide glossy frosting stripes on top of numerous donuts, which are moving on an assembly line under it. The distances of the noz

On her shoes, her clothes, her jewlery: every piece in her closet has a barcode and is saved in a high-tech database. This takes care of the fact that the singer and actress never wears the same thing on an event twice. Dress code with a barcode system For Jennifer Lopez the following thought would turn out horrible: she gets on the red carpet she will be papped with a flashlight thunder and on the next day in the Hollywood News she reads that she has already worn that dress

It is a pilot project and is supposed to care for more traffic safety in Denmark and persuade more people to ride bikes. With RFID chips in the spokes cyclists may not have to wait in front of a red light anymore. Traffic light with RFID brain At an intersection in Aarhus, a city in Denmark, a testing area for an European pilot project with the name RADICAL (Rapid Deployment for Intelligent Cities and Living). The big traffic light is red and also the little traffic light for