RFID supports US mentoring project
Non-profit organisation, Over My Shoulder Foundation, has teamed up with Grammy winner Patti Austin, ADPublishing.org and XtremeSignPost, to drive a project that uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) to promote mentoring, reports RFID Journal.
A Boston concert celebrating Martin Luther King Junior, distributed RFID-enabled postcards called Bulacards, where mentors and those being mentored uploaded photographs, videos and text on the postcard, which was linked to the Internet of Experiences Web site.
"Each person's individual files will be available to the public during the duration of the project," says Monto Kumagai, XtremeSignPost's CEO and president. "The cards can be scanned by RFID readers or RFID-enabled cellphones, so people can call up the experience for their own memory, or share with a friend with a wave of the cellphone."
RFID measures body temperature
PositiveID, in conjunction with RFID Solutions in Spain, has developed an RFID-enabled temperature-sensing microchip, states RFID News.
The RFID-powered microchip is able to measure internal temperatures within the body and then communicate that temperature wirelessly to an external reader.
PositiveID plans to integrate the temperature sensing with its Wireless Body platform to provide early warning at the onset of an illness. The company expects its Wireless Body platform will continue to evolve with the addition of other bio-sensing capabilities, including glucose sensing through its GlucoChip, which is currently under development.
Android Gingerbread gets RFID
Mobifyer, a division of Merchant360, has released a near field communication (NFC) development kit for Android 2.3 Gingerbread, says RFID Ready.
Android developers have recently been exposed to NFC technology with the release of Gingerbread and the Samsung Nexus S phone. However, they have no real way to test and grow their developments.
“We are in the business of increasing the adoption and acceptance of NFC; so with the release of this mainstream phone, we developed some reference applications and packaged them with contactless tags to help everyone participate in the growth of NFC,” says Steve McRae, CEO of Merchant360.
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