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New RFID Tech Tracks You To The Tomb

Mark Baard / Boston Globe
Talk about function creep. A new product, the RosettaStone, guarantees that RFID will follow you straight to your grave. The RosettaStone is a palm-size stone tablet representing the deceased. It bears an RFID tag that communicates with mobile phones — directing users to an Internet memorial archive. That archive might contain photos and recordings of the departed, or notes made by others “left below.’’ The RosettaStone uses the RFID technology, Near Field Communication, or NFC, which is likely to become standard issue on new mobile phones by 2012. (The RFID industry is promoting NFC as a handy way to make contactless payments and other transactions.)
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Posted by Editor at March 19, 2010 02:48 AM