March 04, 2005
Tradewind's SD card RFID reader
Tradewind Technologies has a new SD-based RFID reader works with any Palm-powered handheld and can read and write many standard and proprietary 13.56Mhz tags and labels. The company has also made a developer kit available and costs around $1k USD.
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Tradewind's SD card RFID reader
October 06, 2004
RFID'ied City
Are you big fan of RFID tags? Well everyone out there seems to be, kind of strange when all RFID tags are small patches that contain a small amount of data that can be accessed via Radio Frequency communication. So why all the excitement of RFID, not sure, I believe it is just one of those fads that people have caught onto. There is nothing really special about RFID technology, what makes RFID interesting though are all the concepts and ideas that people are thinking of to use the RFID technology. One such idea is the sticking of RFID tags all around Kobe, Japan. The idea behind this is that you can walk around the city and using an RFID reader (supposedly in a future mobile phone) and read information about the area that you are in, or sign that you are reading. This is a bit like a mobile tourist guide that is aware of your surroundings. It is ideas like these which makes RFID interesting not the technology itself.
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RFID City Article from Engadget
