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The local Gold's Gym has a theft prevention style detector around the front door which will complain if you try and leave with a towel. The towels themselves have an obvious bump in one corner, about the size of a jellybean.
And they are using NFC for that?
NFC is a specific kind of RFID which uses the ISO 18000-3 band for communication over short distances. There are many other types of RFID, which can have much longer ranges.
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Hey man, I'm fascinated with the RFID space and would love to learn more about what you're building. Got a website?
Yes, but the simple website is very scarce in details. The project is in pre-alpha. I was just writing code for the API like an hour ago. I dont want to publicize it here at the moment, but if you send me an email (check profile) I will gladly talk to you about it. Btw, I went to the demo of enerscore (which looks pretty interesting) and it wasn't working for me. I'm on Firefox last build and OSX if that helps. :)
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Hey man, I'm fascinated with the RFID space and would love to learn more about what you're building. Got a website?
Yes, but the simple website is very scarce in details. The project is in pre-alpha. I was just writing code for the API like an hour ago. I dont want to publicize it here at the moment, but if you send me an email (check profile) I will gladly talk to you about it. Btw, I went to the demo of enerscore (which looks pretty interesting) and it wasn't working for me. I'm on Firefox last build and OSX if that helps. :)
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
Walmart uses RFID to track inventory. http://www.usanfranonline.com/resources/supply-chain-managem...
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
Well, boring for users perhaps. For people who like to track you, it is certainly not boring. It is more like fingerprint heaven!
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
As someone who frequently goes skiing, the recent deployment of RFID scanners at larger resorts is nothing short of amazing: You can reload the passes online, the lift attendants can check everyone's pass just by waving a scanner across a crowd (no more having to precisely line up a barcode), you get online stats and achievements at the end of the day, and if you have photos taken on the hill they automatically show…
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Yes, but the simple website is very scarce in details. The project is in pre-alpha. I was just writing code for the API like an hour ago. I dont want to publicize it here at the moment, but if you send me an email (check profile) I will gladly talk to you about it. Btw, I went to the demo of enerscore (which looks pretty interesting) and it wasn't working for me. I'm on Firefox last build and OSX if that helps. :)
Firefox has been pretty finnicky for some reason, but we're actually processing a giant data dump at the moment. Was the address unsupported or did the property just never load?
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How do they prevent theft, exactly?
The local Gold's Gym has a theft prevention style detector around the front door which will complain if you try and leave with a towel. The towels themselves have an obvious bump in one corner, about the size of a jellybean.
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
Wait, sorry... what?! You had an RFID chip implanted in your hand??? I think that story deserves a little elaboration. EDIT: Wow, this is apparently a thing. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)#Hobb...
More interesting, in my opinion, is "surgically" inserting a little magnet into the tip of one of your fingers, which then vibrates in magnetic fields such that your nerves can feel it.
This gives you a sixth sense - you can sense magnetic fields.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-getting-m...
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I'm a frequent library user, and this may be fine for certain types of collections (where you look for very specific books) but is terrible for general use, as you are removing the ability to search by topic.
How? One of the search terms could easily be topic...