On 6/20/11 14:01 , Danny Ayers wrote:
On 19 June 2011 20:42, Henry Story<[email protected]> wrote:
Ok. So you need to give each of your dogs and cats a webid enabled RDFID chip
To inject a little reality: Sashapooch has got an embedded RFID (not
yet RDFID!) tag, not sure but I think it became Italian law.
Basilhound being a bit older, before this stuff came in, has a
(sloppy) tattoo on his tummy, something like LOLU51. I assume the chip
in Sasha has a similar string in it.
But the idea is great - in the same way QR codes are most useful when
they include a URL, putting one in the RFID tag of animals makes a lot
of sense. Simple use case: when the critter wanders off, you can
easily contact the "owner".
I know the RFID chips are now really cheap commodities, what I don't
know about is the scanners - are they yet affordable enough that you
could say include one in a mobile phone?
Danny,
At least one of my phones (the Nexus S) has one, though not very useful
yet; It does react to Dutch public transport chip cards and my Finnish
passport with "Unknown tag type."
Yrjänä
Cheers,
Danny.
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