Posts Tagged ‘RFID’
Apple
CalypsoKey NFC Enabled iPhone 5 Case Opens Compatible Doors (video)
NFC functionality on a smartphone has its utility, though it’s few and far between. In recent I’ve seen a few Bluetooth devices emerge, specifically speakers such as the Beats Pill, that allow you to pair the two d...
Bluetooth
Nokia Luna Bluetooth Headset (video)
Nokia is hardly on the cutting edge of handsets. Heck, the company has fallen into obscurity and almost shambles, largely because they refused to adopt Android. An over simplification? Absolutely. However, the company is st...
Doomed For Failure
Cambridge Computer Laboratory Declares The ADE 651 A Fraud
You guys remember a few months ago when we were talking about the ADE 651, supposed to be the world’s greatest bomb detector because it could literally sniff out explosives from up to half a mile out? And how we said tha...
iPhone
iCarte 110 Accessory Add Contactless Payment To The iPhone
It’ll be a long time, if not never, that Americans start using NFC (near field communication) to pay for their goods via a cell phone. But just in case you want to be on the cutting edge and happen to have a need to read...
RFID
Plexidor Pet Door–Maybe Just A Little Too Far
Maybe, just maybe, we spoil our pets a bit too much. Oh, sure, we don’t think twice about the occasional chew bone or some such, but some dogs today eat better than some people do. Plus there’s the add-ons–cl...
HDD
Freecom’s Hard Drive Secure Requires An RFID Card To Read And Write
RFID is slowing starting to trickle out into consumer products, but what little we’ve seen seems to have had very little application in our everyday lives. Freecom’s Hard Drive Secure, though, uses the tech in a ver...
Security
Flipside Wallet: An RFID Shielded Credit Card Holder
The days of RFID driver licenses may still be a long way off, but just in case you happen to live in state or a city that demands the latest in identification then you might wanna take a look at the Flipside Wallet. Crafted of...
RFID
Mir:ror RFID Reader Now Available (video)
The term, or acronym RFID has been just that for most people, that is until now. For just $50 you can now snag the the Mir:ror, a consumer friendly RFID reader. Included in the package are three RFID tags that you can stick t...
RFID
RFID Football Helmet Remotely Monitors A Player’s Temperature
I had no idea, but player overheating, better known as heatstroke, is a serious issue on the football field. Monitoring a player’s temperature can be challenging and perhaps even down right demoralizing. HOT (heat obvse...
Security
New York Driver Licenses Go RFID
RFID still isn’t a sound technology, at least from security standpoint, so I’m surprised to see New York state adopting the technology. Fortunately, the NY RFID licenses only contain an encrypted identification num...