Disney has a pretty neat use for RFID that was featured in a previous HN post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9177105
Please scan my towel
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Re: Please scan my towel
#112RFID 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…
And a huge improvement over the magnetic strip passes. I have a pair of ski pants with magnets to hold the pocket closed, which is an incredibly dumb design, and they kept wiping my ski pass
Re: Please scan my towel
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah, no one would just cut the label out, right?
It is sewn into the corner of the towel itself, not the label.