First SDIO RFID Reader for Palm OS
TradeWind Technologies has just introduced the world's first RFID reader in the SD card form factor. The card enables many Palm OS handheld devices to read or write standard and proprietary RFID 13.56Mhz tags and labels.
The reader fits into any standard SD/SDIO slot and extends outside the slot for a small external footprint of 28mm x 28 mm. The reader also has a low 11mm profile and a read range of 7cm.
The company is now taking orders for development kits for integrating the SDIO reader into an application. The kit provides one SDIO RFID reader card, C++ modules for PalmOS, as well as some sample tags and labels for testing. The kits cost $999 USD, and the Tradewind also offers separate purchases of just the RFID SD card. The reader support any device with Palm OS 4.2 or higher.
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RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
A Palm wannabe fanatic
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This is their way to control their inventory.
How do I know...I work for a manufacturer and we have been mandated by them to apply RFID tags to our merchandise.
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RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
Make that a nine meter pole ....
Long Range RFID tags have a distance of about 10m.
The small passive tags you will find on goods at WalMart have a limited range - about that of a retail barcode scanner without the hassles of locating and aligning the barcode before scanning. They transmit a number - which will probably tie back to the barcode number (because for the most part both systems will be in place) and identifiy a product in a database, not actually broadcasting the product description itself.
The long range tags are generally powered devices, or operate in a different spectrum to the low power RFID tags. These are used in things like toll ways.
Are there grounds for concern from a privacy standpoint? No more than what you currently have where your purchases can be tied back to your credit card and your entire purchase history accessed by a store. Is there a threat from RFID "hackers" spying on your purchasing habits? Only if you are paranoid enough to believe that it might be true.
BTW - interesting use of RFID ...
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000997033548/
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
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RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
i mean from my understanding on them they just transmit a number, like a barcode, to a receiving device... how are you guys getting ppl being able to get ur credit card accounts from this information, i mean aren't RFID's programmed at factory? And how are manufacturers supposed to know who buys their merchandise ahead of time?
All this concern about RFID's being a invasion of privacy seems unfounded to me. I mean if people wanted to know your buying habbits, they can already find out just by looking at what you're wearing... Am I missing something here, or do we actually think people we don't know actually care to steal that kind of information digitally when they can already do so with their eyes....
RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
Rhino - maybe they can implant an RFID in you and all the common-folks' skulls so when you go to buy your clothes, shoes, furniture, etc. at the Walmart, you can walk out without having to go through the register line and they can just bill you.
RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
I'm for anything that will move you hillbilly cattle in and out of the store as quickly and as efficiently as possible in order to maximize earnings per share and shareholder value.
RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
Yeeee ha.
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Existing RFID future
http://www.future-store.org/servlet/PB/-s/5q36xy1l43voq19wdx5t1mtvpay1kc6icq/menu/1003892_l2/index.html
There you can find the real exsisting "future"
looking for a industrial stile PalmOS divice
RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
Shop at Wal-Mart, burn in Hell.
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/walmart/quebec_canada_store_closed.php
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Symbol SPT1550 dinosaur
For my personal use I use a tungsten C and I think that 2 year old technology is antiquated, now I have to use 7 year old palmos barcode scanner simply because symbol hasn't bothered to update!?!
I did see one company making an SD barcode scanner, but all the software I'm looking at supports the SPT1550, so I don't want to shoot myself in the foot there. If any of you have done this before, can you recommend a software package. I'm leaning towards Wasp MobileInventory v3, but I will be demoing at least 3 others.
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RE: Not with a nine foot pole!
"Many men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up
and continue as if nothing had happened."
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