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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."
the same RFID tags that we have all come to loathe
I don't subscribe to slashdot groupthink.
I don't loathe any technology, only those that abuse it.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Only some of the potential uses.
I used an RFID card to get in and out of a city admin building all last week on site, it was much better than having to fumble for a different key for the umpteen different doors.
Technophobic dorks. Invasion of privacy, and all the other paranoias you have are all social problems, not technical ones.
Don't bitch about the tech, bitch about the people who would misuse it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Outside of the slashdot tin-foil hat crowd, I don't think anybody is getting really worked up over glorified barcodes.
It's just a technology like just about everything else. It doesn't automatically make it evil just because some bad guys might use it or there is "potential" for abuse.
Seriously, the RFID is evil meme is dead. Learn to deal with it.
I do hate it when someone takes it on themselves to speak for everyone... why they couldn't have said 'which many have come to loathe' or 'which many have privacy concerns over' etc.
Personally I think they're kinda cool... and coming from a data and human interaction focused business such as I am in, the things they can do to the betterment of people's experiences of things is supurb.