January 28, 2007
RFID field trial for cosmetics
Mitsukoshi, Shiseido Company and Fujitsu are testing RFID for cosmetics.
What sounds most interesting about this trial is the RFID-enabled kiosk terminals that display information from @cosume, a consumer opinion website about cosmetics. Customes can present an RFID-tagged sample products and easily display reviews posted by consumers. (This is mentioned in the Nikkei article.)
If Amazon.com works, this might work as well.
via smartmobs?> DMAsia.com; also nikkei?(in japanese); computerworld; asahi.com
What sounds most interesting about this trial is the RFID-enabled kiosk terminals that display information from @cosume, a consumer opinion website about cosmetics. Customes can present an RFID-tagged sample products and easily display reviews posted by consumers. (This is mentioned in the Nikkei article.)
If Amazon.com works, this might work as well.
via smartmobs?> DMAsia.com; also nikkei?(in japanese); computerworld; asahi.com
by konomi
January 27, 2007
Japan Application Consortium formed for RFID pilot programme
ET wearable RFID gear turns everything into toys
Sorry, I haven't been blogging for a few weeks!
you might have seen this upbeat video ?via engadget
Keio's media design has other interesting video clips here:
http://kmd.sfc.keio.ac.jp/collection/collection_eng.htm
you might have seen this upbeat video ?via engadget
Keio's media design has other interesting video clips here:
http://kmd.sfc.keio.ac.jp/collection/collection_eng.htm
by konomi
January 05, 2007
User Targeted Ads Via RFID - Attention Shopper, This Ad is Just for You
didn't know this was on cnn?as well
by konomi
Japanese Government to Build "a system for watching children"
According to SankeiWeb, Japanese geverment (Soum-sho) is planning to spend 1.2B Japanese Yen (about 10 million USD) to build "a system for watching kids" using mobile phones, GPS, RFID tags, etc. There'll soon be pilot tests in 20 regions across the country. The ministry (Soumu-sho) seems to be looking at systems that monitor kids' whereabouts using GPS-enabled mobile phones, RFID tags carried by kids, and RFID readers and communication devices installed at school gates and electric polls. Parents receive notifications when their kids pass nearby RFID readers; warning messages will be sent out when the kids enter a "dangerous area."
This is the first large scale test of this kind of systems.
This is the first large scale test of this kind of systems.
by konomi
January 04, 2007
Skimming Protection
My old passport just expired, so I had to get a new one. And it came with an RFID-chip. I don't really consider myself as a privacy fundamentalist but I thought it would be a good idea to get one of those skimming protection passport covers.
II went to a large department store that many would think as one of the best places for buying something like that, but, unfortunately, they didn't have a faraday cage passport cover. I ended up with buying this one for protecting RFID credit cards, train passes, etc.
it would be nice if RFID passports have skimming protection built in, so, for example, the front page of a passport is a faraday cage ...and unless you open your passport, the RFID chip couldn't be read.
you know Skim Gold costs $10?
II went to a large department store that many would think as one of the best places for buying something like that, but, unfortunately, they didn't have a faraday cage passport cover. I ended up with buying this one for protecting RFID credit cards, train passes, etc.
it would be nice if RFID passports have skimming protection built in, so, for example, the front page of a passport is a faraday cage ...and unless you open your passport, the RFID chip couldn't be read.
you know Skim Gold costs $10?
by konomi
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