How do you monitor the temperature of a long-distance walker? It matters - in a Dutch  four-day event two years ago, 69 people went to hospital, over-heated, and two died.

Daily RFID has announced an RFID Jewelry Tag. It's not a personal item; it is designed to automatic jewelry tracking to market communities, secured storing and other areas.

Some news isn't welcome in high tech circles; you have to turn to Packaging News to discover what retailers really think about wireless tagging. No, they aren't impressed, sadly.

Picture Phoning [via Engadget] says Walkers have swallowed RFID pills for science: Researchers at Radboud University in The Netherlands were able to monitor the body temperature of participants at the world's largest marching event using RFID technology. Volunteer participants in the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen swallowed an RFID-based temperature sensor that measured their

DARPA wants to electronically RFID tag US combat soldiers so they can then be swiftly found and rescued if they get into trouble. The “Individual Force Protection System“, is being persued by contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). According to this presentation (pdf), given last year by DARPA officials, IFPS would consist of a small, three-inch

The BBC has an interesting and insightful video showing how mobile technology might play a large role in shaping how we complete tasks such as going to the grocery store.  Basically, consumers will be responsible for scanning their own merchandise with their cell phone.  This German grocery store relies on interactive advertising and RFID tags on food items such as meat.  It might be more helpful

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Can/US Enviro-Energy, reports "Using RFID.com" is a logistics and engineering firm based in Montr?, with facilities in Champlain, NY. It "is using RFID technology to manage the mandatory recycling process of stationary batteries as well as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) equipment and direct current power systems for telecom applications and utilities' organisations."

RFID tagging for data center assets is a new service introduced today by HP under its ?Factory Express RFID Service

Tranzda is starting to step up its game and really push its Newplus Linux stack in earnest, debuting four new models on its site -- plus a fifth, the T818, that it's being a little more secretive about. The TGP-369, TFX-326, TGP-802, and TFX-320 cover both the CDMA and GSM bases, and include some notable features like a fingerprint scanner on the 802, GPS, and RFID capability on certain models. In