Monday, August 23, 2004
Intelleflex Series A Funding About two weeks ago, Intelleflex announced $11.3 million in Series A funding.  Intelleflex has developed leading-edge EPC-compatible tag technology that exceeds the current Class 1 specification. 5:24:00 PM    comment [] Paper Calculator in a Notebook About a year ago, I wrote about Power Paper in one of my newsletters.  Power Paper provides printable, thin, flexible and envionmentally-friendly batteries.  These batteries play a key part in the emergence of active RFID on a wide-scale basis. Yesterday, my daughter came home from back-to-school shopping with a really cool Power Paper product.  It's a notebook with a PowerCalc calculator printed on the inside front cover.  The calculator is truly paper-thin and the selling price for the notebook was under US$5.00.  4:07:40 PM    comment [] RFID Chips in Humans Michael Kanellos has written an article on ZDNet that weighs the benefits and liabilities of allowing RFID for tagging people.  There are some advocates of the technology such as vendor Verichip and the operators of prisons.  The talk-back comments at the end of the article show how the ZDNet readers are overwhelmingly opposed to this use of RFID technology. 3:59:36 PM    comment []