Personal RDIF Tags

Created by Kyle Johnson (Guilford College) on July 18, 2005

OK, this is probably a better idea than the one I had for tattooing bar codes on students. ;-) (I'm kidding by the way). Tommy Thompson, the former head of Health and Human Services has had himself implanted with an RFID tag. He's doing it to help promote VeriChip, a company whose board he just joined.

I must admit some interest in this. If I could stop carrying cards around and use an RFID tag to pay for stuff that would be really cool. Of course I read a story awhile back about a carjacker cutting a guys thumb off in Singapore so that he could take the guy's car (which uses a biometric ignition), so I'd really have to think about where to put the tag...

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		Personal RDIF Tags Created by Kyle Johnson (Guilford College) on July 18, 2005 OK, this is probably a better idea than the one I had for tattooing bar codes on students. ;-) (I'm kidding by the way). Tommy Thompson, the former head of Health and Human Services has had himself implanted with an RFID tag. He's doing it to help promote VeriChip, a company whose board he just joined. I must admit some interest in this. If I could stop carrying cards around and use an RFID tag to pay for stuff that would be really cool. Of course I read a story awhile back about a carjacker cutting a guys thumb off in Singapore so that he could take the guy's car (which uses a biometric ignition), so I'd really have to think about where to put the tag... Blog (WebLog) Kyle's blog Login or register to post comments 3928 reads
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