RFID Journal. Gillete to purchase 500 m RFIDs to tag products. Wow. Embedded Radio IDs are going mainstream. From my friend John Smart’s Accelerating Times newsletter:
[John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
Powerful acceleration of this technology in the last year… A Hitachi chip small enough to place into paper money. Sub-ten cent chips, sub-$100 scanners. Transmission ranges up to 20 feet. MIT’s Auto-ID center is busily building out a Local Positioning System (LPS) for everything.