

Delta Airlines: RFID tags preventing lost luggage
Bags not reaching their destinations. Luggage that get lost while been transported. Such situations should be eliminated for the passengers from this summer on according to Delta-Airlines. That is the reason why they equip their bag tags additionally with RFID-Tags to immediately recognize when luggage are missing. Implementation of RFID at 344 airports this coming summer Since the 90th Baggage-Tags at airports are equipped with barcodes and scanned by big scanners on the bag


Disney develops RFID toys
You take a piece of paper and you combine it with RFID technology and the result is an interactive toy for children. Disney Research and its developers are currently researching for "PaperID" technology. It creates the possibility of implementing completely new products. The body becomes the RFID amplifier Switches, Buttons and Surfaces: If you combine a piece of paper with a RFID-Tag it can be transformed into different things, according to Gaming Gadgets. Similar to smartph


USA: High school students develope RFID systems against weapons
It is a sad statement. Since 2013 there has been 178 shootings at American schools according to the club of weapon safety "Everytown". These numbers obviously scared three students from Miami. In class they developed with the help of a RFID-Chip company and a test version of a RFID software the idea for an Anti-Weapon-Security System based on RFID, which is supposed to minimize shootings at schools in future. The idea came while skiing Esther Benasayag, Albert Wolak and Abrah


RFID robots for inventory
The dream of many business owner: Closing the business in the evening and returning in the morning looking into the computer and having all the data about the inventory ready. All of this without getting through mountains of cloths. Thanks to a new RFID Inventory Robot such a dream becomes reality. The owner of a fashion store tested it for a couple of month. Approximately 2 meters big and 1m per second fast Where exactly is that specific cloth and how many do you still have


Moving People thanks to the PANMOBIL AutoID-Technology
The public transportation services of cologne (KVB) moves 850000 people on a daily base in cologne and surroundings. By servicing and maintaining of their many busses and trains KVB trusts PANMOBIL – technology, so that there are enough public transportations available daily and so that the complex local traffic network of cologne of nearly 60 lines are always and at any time reliable. AutoID instead of laborious paperwork KVB Warehouse foreman Thomas Fabricius 8:30am: a dama


RFID Chip for soccer fans
Having access to the stadium without showing your club card. A big Argentinean soccer club offers its members RFID chips to be placed under the skin. The members would be able to enter the stadium with wireless control and the ticket will be saved on the RFID ship. RFID chip as tiny as a rice grain A tiny peeks and it is done. The General Secretary of the soccer premium league Tigre from Buenos Aires has already a tiny RFID chip in his arm, Kronen Newspaper reports. The whole


Help from barcodes - new alarm app digs the toothpaste
It is 6 am and the alarm turns on: a trembling hand comes out under the blanket and pushes the snooze button hard and silences the alarm. For people who are not that big of a morning person or who stay in the bed for too long, there is hope with the new barcode alarm app - which doesn´t have a snooze button, but instead needs for example toothpaste to turn off. Start the app, enter the wake up time, choose the alarm sound - up to this point the "Barcode Alarm Clock" doesn´t d


Mini computer without a power cable thanks to RFID technology
Passive RFID transponder don't have their own power supply, instead they will be turned off - activated and start working when they are hit by the radio wave of the RFID scanners and use that power. Scientists use this principle to supply Minicomputer wirelessly with power and with their new Transmission protocol in connection with "Computational RFID" (CRFID) they are also able to program these computers wirelessly. This provides complete new application environment for exa


Tasting vine with a RFID bottle
For vine connoisseurs the American Start-Up "Kuvée" thought of something new a networking Vine bottle system for your home. With the RFID labels on the bottle you are not only able to get all the information about the vine via touch screen; you also are able to directly reorder the vine via the Internet-Shop. Vine bottles with an intelligent label "Kuvée" offers its vine in a special aluminum container, which can be put into a Vine controller. Thanks to the RFID label in the


Barcode App simplifies vegan nutrition
According to the "Vegetarierbund" there are currently 7.8 Million people in Germany who are strict vegetarians, approximately 900.000 who live vegan - and the numbers are rising everyday. Therefore Codecheck equipped its Nutrition-App with a vegan function. Thanks to Barcodes you can make sure it's vegan before buying food. Vegan Life-style starts at the store Food Coloring, saturated fat - vegans must know if the food and the ingredients marked vegan at the supermarkets are