A future of electronic tags and intelligence in everything - from our grocery packaging to our clothes to our bodies - raises big questions about privacy and security. We arrive at the airport to have our face, eye, hand, thumb and voice...
Researchers at Sandia Labs have developed a chipset which sits inside the eye to help the blind see again. A long-cherished science fiction dream is approaching reality, as researchers in the US get closer to an eye implant that restores sight to...
Wal-Mart's proposed smart-shelf system was designed to pick up data transmitted from microchips embedded in Gillette product packaging, alerting store managers via computer when stock is running low on the shelf or when items may have been stolen...
The DoD has approved the mandating of RFID tags across the supply chain, with all contracts signed from 1 October to make the technology mandatory and for suppliers to have the technology in place by 1 January 2005 on case, pallet and item packaging.
While privacy implications are proving one of the barricades for retailers trying to get RFID into shops and into product packaging, some consumers might do well to keep an eye on their pockets as well as their data.
Smarter CCTV cameras have been given the ability to listen out for disturbances as well as keeping an eye on citizens. If aggressive tones are picked up an alarm signal is automatically sent to the police, who can zoom in to the location of the...
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