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NEC Corp and Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd., both in Japan, have developed a plastic bottle cap with an embedded passive RFID chip. The cap could be used by soft drink manufacturers for the supply chain. It's design is said to...

Pretec has come up with a tiny waterproof USB flash drive that combines RFID technology to allow remote reading of data. Memory sizes range from 128Mb to 1 Gb. Applications for use involve environments such as hospitals, airports, and warehouses....

Loftware, Inc., in New Hampshire, announced that they now have the honor of being the 2nd largest employer in the world in terms of the number of certified staff. Eighteen of their staff are now CompTIA RFID+ certified. Congratulations to...

Law makers in the US and EU have been considering regulating the use of RFID in their respective districts. The European Union commissioner backed off, deciding to let the technology mature before imposing regulations. In Washington state, RFID legislation didn't...

Managing Portable Toilets With RFID Many thousands of portable toilets across Europe will have their maintenance scheduled more reliably using low-frequency RFID tags. [via RFID Journal] VeriChip Still Pushing Implants? Despite VeriChip's poor showing post-IPO recently (due mostly to doubt...

Mobile Payments InitiativeTwo organizations have launched a joint initiative for the financial services industry to enable mobile payments. They are looking at two types of payment. One would be for purchases via NFC and other contactless technology. The other would...

Amal Graafstra, author of the book RFID Toys, is on one of the first people to implant himself with an RFID chip. His first chip was in one hand, and he later implanted a second chip in the other hand....

With all the companies levying lawsuits about patent infringement, you'd think that Australia's Sandtracker would at least sell their patents or give them to the RFID Consortium patent pool. Instead, they've decided to abandon them [Stuff NZ]. According to the...

Late last week, I went to a sub-post office to get and send a money order for a credit card I was accepted for. As I was signing my money order, a young woman paid for a purchase with her...

The tiny powder RFID chips that Hitachi recently debuted are small enough to be embedded in paper. Reading that in the York Dispatch, it triggered a thought: the US government (collectively) has long desired a way to track paper currency....