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They put a book with an RFID chip on the reader, which triggers a process that displays the cover on the screen, along with a keyboard for typing text to associate with the title. In this case, the container is the book, and the user can draw or type to add content that will travel with it. To illustrate this, they remove the first book and put a second one on the reader. A new cover image appears, along with some information that’s already been added by a previous user. Take that book off and put the first one back on, and the content we added reappears. The whole thing is very cool, and I immediately started thinking about local history collections, schoolwork, and reader reviews. All of which is the point - your librarian mind starts hopping with possibilities. Then they showed us a library card with an RFID chip in it. This one happened to have information about me stored on it, so putting it on the reader brought up information about me, which rotated with books I recommend

Utilizing a central inventory and check-out website, solar-powered docking stations, and high-tech RFID-tagged aluminum bikes, the system is a gadget-maxed project that could be amazing or turn into a complete theft disaster. Each station holds six bikes and six docks, and users can find the nearest available bike on a website and then return the bike to any other dock.

Utilizing a central inventory and check-out website, solar-powered docking stations, and high-tech RFID-tagged aluminum bikes, the system is a gadget-maxed project that could be amazing or turn into a complete theft disaster. Each station holds six bikes

a talking computer with an RFID reader, that guides kids through different pre-loaded games or stories. The kids wear RFID wrist bracelets that identify them in the game, and let them interact with the machine.

a talking computer with an RFID reader, that guides kids through different pre-loaded games or stories. The kids wear RFID wrist bracelets that identify them in the game, and let them interact with the machine.

The Japanese are about to adopt a national system for age verification in cigarette vending machines that uses RFID and face-recognition software.

SemantiFind enhances your existing search engine experience to save you time and deliver more meaningful results. It eliminates ambiguity, allows you to say things the way you want and helps filter out the noise from your existing search engine. And it does all this while you keep using your search engine of choice.

OpenBeacon is a free design for an active RFID device which operates in the 2.4GHz ISM band. The device contains a unique serial number, but may have other information. OpenBeacon is designed as a transceiver device and therefore both transmits and receives radio waves. The intention of this project is to offer a wide range of use cases such as visitor or item tracking and wireless remote control with a free self-contained and low-cost RFID design.

The AMD, or "Attendee Meta-Data", project is an attempt to take an emerging technology called RFID and transparently show how it is capable of being used. In addition, it uses a concept called "interest tags" to allow participants to not only get a better conference experience, but also gives them a new way to connect with other people.

This weekend, the Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project will introduce a new location-aware social networking system to track and bring together hackers based on a huge array of matching interests. Conference goers will be given unprecedented ability to connect with new people, find the talks they're most interested in attending, see what's happening and where in real time, and experience and talk about the way RFID technology is changing the world. Attendees receive RFID badges that uniquely identify and track them across the conference space. Location information is incredibly accurate—visitors' exact locations and movements are monitored in real time, and used to drive revolutionary social networking features which completely change the conference experience.

Tire monitors are nothing new, but Pirelli's taking the idea a step farther by inserting sensors and microchips directly into the tires themselves. The Cyber Tire and Cyber Tire Lean can measure pressure, temperature and vehicle load, sending the information along using RFID. The self-powered Cyber Tire Lean, which will hit the market first in 2010, embeds the sensors in strip glued to the inner lining of the tire and communicates in one direction only; the proper Cyber Tire with directly embedded sensors will arrive later, and is being billed as an "intelligent tire" that will interface with vehicle systems like ABS and traction control to "correct wrong behavior in advance."

Tire monitors are nothing new, but Pirelli's taking the idea a step farther by inserting sensors and microchips directly into the tires themselves. The Cyber Tire and Cyber Tire Lean can measure pressure, temperature and vehicle load, sending the informat

Today at PICNIC, Violet announced that it is releasing a mass-market RFID reader. The Mir:ror will connect to your computer via USB. It will read RFID tags placed near it and can perform actions based on them. I am not sure that the mass-market is ready for an RFID reader, but I think this will one will make headway in the geek community.

Now we'll look at other uses of the technology including scanning products in store, scanning broadcast media, and even exchanging contact information with others through the use of barcodes. Up until now, we've focused on scanning barcodes printed on paper, but that's not the only place where the mobile barcode scanning technology is being used. The ultimate goal for barcodes is to have them everywhere, from t-shirts to stickers to TV. Let look at what innovations are happening in these areas today.

RFID Journal was the world's first independent media company devoted solely to radio frequency identification and its many business applications. Now in its sixth year, RFID Journal is by far the world's leading source of RFID news and insights. Our mission is help companies use RFID technologies to improve the way they do business.

Students at the University of Arkansas, and at neighboring high schools, are employing avant-garde technology to help the health-care industry learn just how RFID can make a difference in the operations of a company or organization. The researchers, under the direction of Craig Thompson, a professor of computer science and computer engineering at the university, hope the technology will provide a modeling and simulation environment that lets organizations test RFID implementations—down to such details as the number of RFID readers and tags, and where to put them—prior to physical deployment.

ctopus is an electronic payment system using a contactless smartcard. Octopus is a trademark of Octopus Cards Limited. In the beginning we aimed to develop a simple way to pay fares on public transport in Hong Kong. Then we extended our reach into simple micropayments for purchases in retail outlets and a simple way for cardholders to gain access to buildings and schools and to identify themselves. Today, over 2,000 service providers accept Octopus, and new uses are regularly being added. Octopus' success is important to Hong Kong people not only because it's part of everyday life - it's also made everyday life so much easier.

The Mir:ror joins the Nabaztag:tag rabbit communicator as part of Violet's attempt to create an "Internet of things." The Mir:ror is a small, dish-like scanner that attaches via USB to a computer; software is available for Mac OS X and Windows. Pass an appropriate RFID tag over the device, and it reads the tag and performs whatever sequence you've selected.

tikitag is a service that enables anyone to link real world objects with the online world and make applications accessible with a single touch. The open beta service was launched on October 1st, 2008, with the availability of tikitag starter packages and tag packages via e-commerce.

SAP posted the video below to YouTube earlier this week showing off work the company is doing in Second Life and with Radio-Frequency Identification. On the retail front, SAP is testing RFID chips in one physical store to track product placement, inventory, and campaigns. The same store is replicated in Second Life, where it's connected to the backend system. SAP says the technology could be used for virtual retailers, but it's also using the Second Life store as a tracking tool and model for real-world managers.

New powerful publishing and content distribution tools will make their debut in 2008 while some of the existing technologies and services will greatly refine, consolidate and expand their present offerings.

The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system.

The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system.

We have prepared for the launch of a one-to-one tablet program for cylindersthe last 1-3 years depending on how you define the start date which for some is when we renewed the discussion and for some is when the board said yes. The launch occurred this week when we put 450 tablets into the hands of 7th, 9th, and 10th graders. We also met with all the parents explaining our excitement about giving the kids a personal learning environment, a tool that paired with the right curriculum could help us all become a community of learners.

To date most of the PLE implementations I have seen have been aggregators of RSS feeds, with not much more functionality than a iGoogle or Pageflake portal. The paper “Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments” by Fridolin Wild, Felix Mödritscher and Steinn Sigurdarson introduces (to me) a markup language by which designers or learners create scripts of learning activities that in room time mashup a host of Web 2.0 tools that allow individual or groups of learners to create their own learning context and content. In the process, of course, they gain skills of media production, increase their social capital by expanding and deepening personal networks and create archives of artifacts available for retrieval by themselves and others.

To date most of the PLE implementations I have seen have been aggregators of RSS feeds, with not much more functionality than a iGoogle or Pageflake portal. The paper “Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments” by Fridolin Wild, Felix M

In this address to the 2008 e-Portfolio Conference I consider the sorts of questions that might be asked about a student’s identity in an e-portfolio system and the factors that inform the answers to those questions. Rather than being answered with a simple physical presence, as we might have expected in the past, the question of identity in a digital space requires a complex answer, taking into account a person’s past and future states, as well as his or her motivations, desires and expectations. Accordingly, an identity is best thought of as a distributed profile, written by multiple authors and considering multiple questions, rather than a single fixed point on which attributes may be assigned.

Current systems used in follow a consistent design pattern, one that is not supportive of lifelong or personalization, is asymmetric in terms of user capability, and which is disconnected from the global ecology of Internet services. In this paper we propose an alternative design pattern for educational systems that emphasizes symmetric connections with a range of services both in formal and informal learning, work, and leisure, and identify strategies for implementation and experimentation

You can use your personal web space to create: Academic Blogs- Document your university experiences. Take notes. Connect with classmates, colleagues, professors, and advisers; Portfolios - Plan and reflect upon your learning at Penn State. Show samples of your work, photos, and media. Connect with potential employers. Personal Sites -- Create your own attractive blogs and websites. Write about any topic. Expand your social network.