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Chemical, Printable RFIDs
Syre writes "The RFID Journal says that CrossID, an Israeli startup, has developed an RFID system that can be printed using an inkjet printer. The 'nanometric' RFID system uses tiny particles of chemicals with varying degrees of magnetism that resonate when bombarded with electromagnetic waves from a reader. Since the system uses up to 70 different chemicals, each chemical is assigned its own position in a 70-digit binary number. 'Previously, there has been no way to protect paper documents,' says Moshe Glickstein, CrossID cofounder. 'We have created the first firewall for paper documents.' The big advantage is that the tag can be printed on just about anything. 'It's as easy to create as a printed bar code. And we can print in invisible mode for extra security. Printing the tags cost less than 1 cent each.' Their FAQ
says that 'CrossID can be read from quite a long distance'. No word on whether it can be user-disabled..."
Wow! My first ever attempt at a first post! :P Hiya draino. :)
You've got admit the /. polls have been a little, well frankly very, pointless of late. So I think it's time for a 'Your Favorite Editor' poll.
Timothy gets my vote because the others are just plain lazy, they don't check links, dupes, grammar,
and importance of a story. I'd like to hear other /.ers views.
Thank you,
Tarquin.
the CSLIB menace here was gonna' go for a fp.
fuckers obviusly drinking more than me.
or listening to less Beatles.
i agree!
Can someone confirm the nasty romour I heard: Is michael a hetrosexual? It just doesn't sound right.
, it is funny... Oh, by the way... No back to Martha Stewart's shoes...
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It's printed on the paper. Only the special ink makes it work.
Try a photocopier?
Unless they all get programed to do what they do for currency to prevent us from copying such documents. (E.G. time to stock up on good copying machines?)
I'm worried about privacy and I see RFID as a big issue. However, when I survey the world I also to most of Africa dying of AIDS, India and China perhaps to follow. I also see famine and corrupt totalitarian regimes oppressing the crap out of their people as well as ethnic strife and general lawlessness in many other parts of the world. While keeping in mind that privacy is a very important issue, perhaps we would all do well to also remember how lucky we in the developed word have it such that people can be posting to this site wondering if this tech advance means the world is going to end.