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Benetton Clothing to Carry RFID Tags
An anonymous reader writes "Clothing manufacturer Benetton has announced that they will begin embedding RFID tags in clothing for inventory control purposes. You can
read more about this at SF Gate." morcheeba adds more information: "EETimes is reporting that Benetton will be embedding a Philips RFID chip into the label of every new garment bearing the name of Benetton's core clothing brand, Sisley. The 15 million chips expected sold in 2003 will allow monitoring of garments from production to shipping, shelves and dressing rooms. The I.CODE chip (tech info) used in Benetton's labels will include 1,024 bits of EEPROM and operate at a distance of up to 1.5 meters. RFIDs look like they would be extremely uncomfortable in some Sisley clothes."
big brother is watching you... *through* your underwear....!!!!
At least ill have an excuse to have big holes in my clothes now huh
no sissy clothing... chip-containing or otherwise!
Will this help me find matching socks?
Cool they're using an EEPROM, that presents some interesting possibilities, although lugging a laptop into a department store to give yourself a price markdown might be a little obvious.
That's a beautiful top you got on. What are you clocking in at girl? ooOoOOo honey, i tell you.. with the heat you generating, you must be running at 10 TeraHertz, and ooh baby does it hurtz like hell."
So now will we'll be able to tell if she's wearing the "I'm getting lucky tonight" panties or the "He's not worth more than dinner" panties. Might help us decide how much to spend on the date.
Who am I kidding, we'd just be happy to be on a date with.
This should do the trick.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
that this comes from Philips. Being from the old world they are completely enamored with paternalism and facism.
Now that's advertising.
you insensitive clod!!!
I can't wait till bikinis are just RFID tags!
Privacy? You pretty much give it up in more ways than one at that point!
If you guys really hate Benetton, you could get a handheld emp gun and zap their entire store rendering all their rfid tags useless. If enough people did it, they would probably stop doing using it. Alternatively, the easy solution would probably to just get a microwave oven and leave the door open during operation.... although that might get you into some trouble.
Salesperson: "What are you doing with the microwave?"
Joe Freak: "I'm just warming up my lunch"
Salesperson: "In the underwear section?"
you could get a handheld emp gun and zap their entire store rendering all their rfid tags useless.
This assumes the ability to travel to a parallel universe or future time where handheld EMP guns actually exist.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Her "kitten" is on fire?
And look at those man-hands, bleh.
this is why the microwave oven might be easier. but it might be a health risk to leave the door open at a store.
How can i make my underwear scan like a can of ravioli?
Can I fool scanners into thinking I'm wearing original kilobuck designer duds, or that they scan as tools from the hardware store?
I can forsee the web sites popping up for scan code exchange, and I know there will be tons of creative hacks that I can't yet imagine.
Start paying a little closer attention. You don't need x-ray vision to be able to tell (unless she's wearing a T-back or G-string.) At first it might be hard to tell, but the more you practice you'll get better at it. It's kinda like the next level up from being able to tell if she's bra-less.
Damn, I probably just ruined my rep with all the hotties on Slashdot. Oh, wait...
I see girls pracing around in lacy underwear...
They don't see each other...
They don't know they are in lacy underwear...
Hey... you are not a freak. Don't you believe anybody
that tells you that. It's bullshit and you don't have
to grow up believing that. You hear me?
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
The easy way would be to simply physically remove the tag, then switch it with someone else. See how the store reacts to you wearing 5 pairs of socks, or other "unusual" combinations.
I want to install this into my home, no more "This bag ? Oh that's just groceries honey" from my wife. Maybe I can keep inventory for her as well, so I can bring my PDA with her closet inventory with me when we go shopping: "See darling, you already have fourteen of those, now let's go buy some books"
beauty is only a light switch away
She might look hot, but she appears to have a white cloud of some kind of noxious vapor escaping from her crotch area. Thanks, but no thanks.
The next thing you know, they won't sell them to you, they will license you to wear it. You will find a huge piece of paper when you first try to put them on. It will say you did not in fact buy the shirt only licensed it and by weraing them you agree to the license. Of course, you are then not allowed to let anyone else use the shirt. IN fact, they may at any time actually enter your homw to check that you actually have license for ALL your clothes and they may even at any time modify their short (that you licensed) in any way they want, like puting in short sleeves instead of long and changing thr colour of it. Well, it is a 10 page thing, I won't go through it all here.
Oh well, on the other hand lets hope not...
I'm bemused. This is slashdot talking about a new piece of technology - and yet I've not found a single post talking about installing Linux on it, seting up the first 'underwear web server', or connecting up a 120GB hard disk to it.
And of course, the very real possibility of having your own personal beowolf cluster of clothes...
If these chips contain EEPROM, they can be hacked right? You could:
1. Confuse the checkout by having a porsche 911 in your shopping trolley.
2. Make your pants look like a rocket launcher to freak out the secret police.
3. Remotely reprogram other people's pants to look like yours, hence stealing there frequent flyer/loyalty points.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Why can't the chips be made microwave-resistant?
They can. McCain make microwave-proof chips.
hey, that'd be great for the truely anal retentives amongst us. They could ensure their socks, all of the same colour, were a proper match ;-)
try putting a paper clip or a twist tie (the kind with the metal core) on high for a minute. After the fire department leaves I think you'll have a much better understanding of what a microwave is capable of ;)
So why is this moderated as Funny? This is clearly a Flamebait!
(runs for cover)
You can't handle the truth.
Just what I need, another thing to worry about. Not only must I tape my windows to keep out nerve gas and wear a tinfoil hat to stop mind probes, but I'll have to devise some method to prevent my being shot in the ass with a tranquilizer dart and relocated to a remote swamp.
Background: Once upon a time there was a brand of clothes for kids called "Garanimal." There was nothing special about the clothes except that they had tags featuring different animals inside. The ideas was that if you matched a monkey-tagged-shirt with monkey-tagged pants, you'd know that they went together and you were fit to be seen in public.
Obviously, knowing what clothes go together is a useful skill, and the potential for a geekware line of clothes featuring O'Reilly animals would be cool (I'd feel right sexy in vi-guy underwear).
But why settle for an obvious (and potentially embarasing) visible tag when you can have a hidden, electronic tag that does the same thing and requires a (hackable) computing device?
The store security has to actually witness the theft. If the item in question is your Sisley panties, then I imagine a huge out of court settlement will curb future behaviour.
Is that an RFID in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?