Comments on: Hitachi Develops RFID Powder

By: brendal

brendal — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:26:59 +0000

Saw an article last year in Scientific American about them developing this and…ah-ah-

cHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

’scuse me.

Did you get the number of that particle, btw?

By: Fred Jones

Fred Jones — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:57:24 +0000

I come from England and there is a lot on this blog about CCTV and the fascist state. I don’t think it matters how good the tech becomes in the UK, the government is so incompetent that they can never track anybody. Everybody is filmed on CCTV but then they loss 5 million people from the child benefit database.

By: Olo Baggins of Bywater

Olo Baggins of Bywater — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:32:54 +0000

I just love how everyone automatically hates RFID…take off your foil hats!

RFID tags of this type reflect some tiny amount of the signal applied to them, and the nature of the reflection is determined by the data in the tag. OK, something this small can only reflect a miniscule amount of RF, meaning the read distance is very, very short. It’s probably a bit longer than the distance for reading the magnetic strip on the back of your credit card.

Two, these chips, like most others, don’t work directly on metal or under any amount of flesh or moisture. Inside your body they are just as useful as an optical barcode within your colon.

RFID on this blog is like listening to those who think there are cameras in their cable boxes. This is new tech that relies heavily on old tech, something very few of you whippersnappers have the patience to learn these days….RF propagation. (I work in the tech school industry, and I know that this subject is not taught much these days)

By: Less secure

Less secure — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:10:42 +0000

Something about these things being so small that they can be sprinkled on ice cream that doesn’t make sense. It’s like trying to keep track of dust compared to keeping track of the whole house. I don’t buy it.

By: Special Ed

Special Ed — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:52:57 +0000

Stops jock itch too!

By: soundwash

soundwash — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:50:47 +0000

the “American” version of this is called Smartdust.

other words to search on would be nanodust & nanoradio. add +military to see all military projects related to this stuff.

iirc, one the “above board” uses of this stuff
was to track animal migrations. -use your own imagination.

they have been working on “dust” the size of blood cells for other interesting applications. -powered
by something akin to the ATP in your cells.

also, for some really easy to understand far out nano concepts, search on “Ray Kurzweil+nano” and Ray+Kurzweil+nano+video -this will give you a wealth
of “commercial uses envisioned” for smart/nano dust.

i believe it was spawned partially from UC Berkely’s carbon nanotube “AM/FM receiver” breakthroughs a while back.

one carbon nanotube will resonate at given frequency
and make a good receiver. put a “tube within a tube”
and you get something that will use resonant energy to transmit.

this stuff was in DARPA’s crosshairs back in 1999.
i’m sure you will find something on their site

conspiracy 101:

-consider: they have this stuff down to less than a penny per “dot” -and $2.3trillion was missing in the pentagon (that we know of) on 9/10/2001. -no doubt some of that was “highly leveraged”

now, add this dust to the aerosol campaign (chemtrail) and its likely parts of the USA
have already been walking around with this stuff in them. -you know, to track the “migration habits” of Homo Sapiens…

imo, typically, major breakthroughs like this have already been in use in the military sector for 10+ years before it “breakthroughs to the civilian sector” -since it’s usually DOE or DARPA that
funds the work.

food for thought

-s

By: Buzz

Buzz — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:28:48 +0000

These will soon be applied to ammo. As you buy it, all rounds will be “assigned” to you. As you shoot it, accounting will be possible.

As you murder with it, you will go directly to jail. Do not pass Go.

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:49:01 +0000

It may be that the true cause of global warming is all the radio frequency radiation we are constantly bathed in, day and night. Cell phones, wireless data services, wi-fi, bluetooth, now RFID readers will be everywhere. It’s a wonder we’re not all running a fever!

By: Dallas

Dallas — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:44:24 +0000

Way cool. These things are mesh configured.
Uses include: weather modeling in a hurricane, temperature and moisture sensors, seismic monitors.

In 5 years they will be even smaller than Bush’s brain.

By: RSweeney

RSweeney — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:13:51 +0000

The Hitachi “dust” has always had the issue of power, you need to enclose and cover the dust with a resonant cavity reader to get enough power into the chip to make it work.

Not the reading at a distance that everyone fears.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:32:41 +0000

I give up. This is just fucking evil.

By: faxon

faxon — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:53:13 +0000

I guess the reasoning of the jerks who develop this stuff is that it is not a problem for “honest” people. I guess that’s why the Feds don’t think we need the 4th Amendment any longer. How about “Free Thinking” people? Well, Obama is going to squash that, too, and put these in certain “unpatriotic” products and materials. How about these in Fast Food, and revoke your wonderful Obama Government Health care if you are spotted? Just wondering….

By: Hugh Ripper

Hugh Ripper — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:33:22 +0000

What happens if you breath in this stuff or ingest it? It cant be good for your health (as well as your liberty).

By: David

David — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:32 +0000

The range on these RFID chips is still pretty low. But it does have the potential to make theft nearly impossible if they start using these in retail.

By: father time

father time — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:44:29 +0000

How big the antenna?