Many of us are already familiar with the use of medical labels on tags, bracelets and necklaces to carry medical information – medical ID tags are commonly used by those with allergies for use in emergencies, but there is much more to medical identification bracelets than meets the eye.
Medical ID tags, no matter what form [...]

Barcode labels are very cheap and highly effective at carrying data and information – initially they were developed for use in grocery stores and the pricing of goods and inventory control; a use for which they have become almost universally adopted.  Today barcodes are still finding new applications and in Japan, cell phones are now [...]

Happy Christmas for those of you who survived Christmas turkey, ham, stuffing and all the rest of the food and drink that gets thrown at us this time of year
New Year is just around the corner and we are getting ready for welcoming 2009 in and waving goodbye to 2008 as it heads [...]

Tagging your possessions is something many of us do but we fail to consider the full scale benefit to be derived from making sure our goods and chattels are identifiably ours.
Take look at some of the law enforcement statistics regarding lost and stolen property:

a tagged item is 37 times more likely to be returned to [...]

Radio frequency identification or RFID is the technology that uses radio signals to trak an items location; if you read about a convict being released but compelled to wear an ankle bracelet to track them, the you are looking at a practical example of RFID.
RFID has far more constructive uses than just making sure a [...]