Rodent Regatta

Jenny Levine is posting again. She has mentioned an entry by Doug Miller and additional articles about the possibility that Gillette is buying 500 million RFID tags from a company called Alien Technology.

I did a bit of research and learned that the Auto-ID Center is behind the development of follow-on technologies for bar codes (i.e. UPC). A quick glance at the sponsor list and I notice that Federal Express is conspicuously missing. UPS is included!

I then learned of the RFID Journal. We’ve been working with RF systems in warehouse management systems for years, but the notion of an RF tag brings a host of questions to mind. Namely, can a small, cheap, user-printable GPS tag be very far behind?