Adding personalized ID labels to your valuables really does work to help you recover lost or stolen items! I know, because I have first-hand experience in this matter. Part of my job requires that I travel frequently for business. And, I have gotten into the habit of reading quite heavily while on these business trips. [...]

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 [...]

Only the size of a grain of rice, a pet microchip is usually injected just under the skin at the back of the neck of your pet.  The procedure is usually carried out by a veterinarian and is quick and painless.  The chip carries information which is readable by a chip reader, particularly a code [...]

Holograms are composed of photographic images which are given a 3-dimensional appearance by how the hologram sticker is constructed and by using how light behaves.  The image is not a true 3-dimensional image but is in fact two 2-dimensional images which use how light enters the label and is reflected back to give the impression [...]

Life imitates art, but when someone produces imitation products of the genuine article we all suffer – the manufacturer, the distributor and the customer.  Beating the counterfeiters is an imperative for any business intent on maintaining its proprietary rights over a brand as well its market reputation and billions of dollars are lost every year [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The use of finger print identification to access a laptop or other electronic device has become an accepted though not widely adopted biometric technology for securing access, particularly to sensitive systems.  Banking applications using fingerprint identification technology have come under increasingly sophisticated attacks by fraudsters and is no longer the secure biometric solution it once [...]