RFID Music Player

frazzydee writes "I know what you're thinking, RFID tags used to play music? Well, it turns out that we don't need to take out our tinfoil hats this time, because it turns out that are some constructive uses for the same RFID tags that we have all come to loathe. Since RFID tags can hold 1 kilobyte of data, somebody who goes by dividuum found that (s)he could use the tags combined with a reader to store and play back music. Dividuum used SID files- the same format used on Commodore 64s- and programmed everything in C. Pictures of the RFID device are available here."

Comments

1 kb

[Umbral Blot]

1 Kb doesn't seem like a lot of music. 1 Mb/min is the usal rate for at least decent encodings. That means that 1Kb would play ... 1/1024 min or approx .05 seconds. Ouch

Re:1 kb

[squiggleslash]

You'll be amazed by the compression rates achieved by some Indian math guy...

(I sense a potential new meme)

Re:1 kb

[NoGuffCheck]

Your not taking into account the time-space-continueum (stupid). Try listening to Celine Dion, its so bad that 0.05 seconds would sound like a waste of hours.

A name!

[grub]

At least they credit someone named "Dividuum" rather than calling him "RFID software guy".

Not really so good

[nulbit]

Since RFID tags can hold 1 kilobyte of data, somebody who goes by dividuum found that (s)he could use the tags combined with a reader to store and play back music. Great! If I had like three thousand I can actually play a entire track, give the RIAA a convenient way to track me, and I'll probably get some sort of prostate cancer! Awesome!

AFDB

[Embedded Geek]

we don't need to take out our tinfoil hats this time

Ha! You won't fool me! You're just trying to get me to take off my Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie! Well, it won't work! I've had voices in my head a lot louder than you try! So if you think that you'll---

What? OK, Mom. I'll go take my meds now.

Re:AFDB

[flyingsquid]

Ha! You won't fool me! You're just trying to get me to take off my Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie! Well, it won't work!

RFIDs can be made paper-thin and less than a centimeter square, so now they (you know who!) have put them inside every square foot of aluminum foil.

For a good tinfoil hat, you need to get aluminum foil which is at least twenty years old. I suggest going to the dump and digging down a few feet- dig until you get to the really ripe stuff, then it's just about five more feet! The dates of magazines and newspapers will help you make sure you're deep enough. You could try melting down aluminum foil and then hammering it out into sheets, but then they (you know who!) will notice that some of the RFIDs no longer transmit, and that will arouse suspicions and increase surveillance intensity, so it's not a good idea.

Tinfoil hat?

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

You know folks tin foil and aluminum foil are VERY different things.

I amazed that a site so full of educated geeks has never pointed this out.

Re:Tinfoil hat?

[NanoGator]

"But megabits are sometimes used, so making a distinction between Mb and MB is neccessary."

In casual conversation? I don't think so. Would you really correct somebody talking about a 640mb CD-ROM? Would YOU really like to be corrected for not being unnecessarily specific?

Do you (syrix Slashdot user 10649) really think (i.e. do you have neurons in your brain firing in a specific pattern that results in the idea that people need to be extremely specific when they type a comment on Slashdot.org located at the IP address 66.35.250.150) that it is really all that important (the theme of any given post severly risks mass mis-comprehension) that every technical (the more specific, the better because otherwise the literal definition of what is stated has a number of ways it can be misconstrued) detail must be painstakingly (i.e. thoroughly researched from places like Google.com or any textbooks you may have nearby.) defined in order to avoid needless (i.e. the world will not suddenly stop rotating or revolving) (rotating around the Earth's axis and revolving around the sun) nitpicking (i.e. corrections made in a condescending tone)?

In other news!

[angedinoir]

Apple comes out with 40 gb iPod.........

Okay, someone used an RFID reader/writer to put 1k of music on, it, big whoop. Next week I'm planning on putting some MP3s on my usb flash drive, isn't that great... :P

Re:Speak for yourself

[nmoog]

The singing bass is just a technology too. Some things deserved to be loathed.

Avant Garde

[Embedded Geek]

I just have to wonder what kind of weird/random noise the thing would make if you took it into a store that has embraced RFID:

And now WWRD's Avante Garde corner features Herr Gerder VonStiffle's latest composition, "Fast Walk Through Walmart's Sporting Goods Section, #7"

Finally...

[Arjuna Theban]

I get my own theme music!

Re:Speak for yourself

[Anonymous Coward]

you think that you're AC?

I've got an RFID tag up your ass!

To save time, I will sum up fully 1/2 of posts

[Kiryat Malachi]

Q: Why?

A: Because.

Q: But that's not enough of a reason.

A: Yes, it is.

Q: But it's so useless.

A: Shut the fuck up and go play Pokemon, would you?

Resistance

[lgbarker]

I don't subscribe to slashdot groupthink.

Resistance is futile, etc, etc.

Like everyone else at the time....

[greppy]

..they probably used LPs and magnetic tapes.

http://www.soultracks.com/commodores.htm

Re:Exactly...

[famebait]

I do hate it when someone takes it on themselves to speak for everyone

We all do.