Insights about our near future. Hopefully, they will inspire you deeply and help you add developments to your life....

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* how past people imagined the future and how their imagination turned into reality,
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September 05, 2009

RFID tags on your watch

As I see on Engadget, they think of placing rfid tags on watches. It is wise. But, even in work safety, they made fall protection harnesses with rfid tags... I wonder where this will go....



Looking to simultaneously trick your employees into thinking you love them and keep better tabs on their whereabouts? If so, you should definitely look into handing out Winwatch-approved timepieces as "performance incentives," which should be sporting an oh-so-telling RFID tag in the near future. The Switzerland-based outfit has just announced plans to patent an RFID-enabled crystal gasket that would be placed in luxury wristwatches, and while they're pushing it as a way for companies to weed out counterfeit products, we're sure the privacy advocates in attendance can think of far darker applications. Samples are slated to start shipping out later this autumn, which means your window to snag a non-voyeuristic watch is hastily closing.

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