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Gillette Buys Half a Billion RFID Tags

Posted by michael on from the he-knows-when-you've-been-shaving dept.

prostoalex writes "Gillette announced its intent to purchase 500,000,000 RFID tags from startup Alien Technology. The company expects to introduce RFID tags into its pallets and cases, according to the article. Alien Technology was the first company to introduce an RFID tag with price lower than 10 cents, even though some people claimed it could not be done."

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  1. Gillette by NaveWeiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't like Gillette blades, since they get worn-out so fast (ofcourse they could make the blades last longer, but there's no profit in that!).. and the most annoying fact is that I can't find competing blades, besides of those low-quality one-use razors.

    Now, do you have some other razor to recommend? And preferably without RFID.

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  2. Networking on the cheap? by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So why couldn't these things be applied to wireless networking?

    Range is short (but for the higher frequency one it's 30 meters which should be fine for a home network) and bandwidth probably isn't too good... but these things are dirt cheap.

  3. thats great... by DigiBoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but will i get a closer shave?

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