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Rfiddler Rifle Zaps USB Sticks and RFID Chips Into Oblivion
Sensitive data is no match for the Rfiddler rifle. It can burn out RFID tags and USB sticks by zapping them with a strong electromagnetic field generated by a hacked 0.6kJ photo-flash unit driving a 50 turn copper spool. More »LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
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With a name that sounds like it's gone through Google Translate repeatedly, the team behind Freecom's Hard Drive Secure must've put all their energy into the super-dee-duper RFID cards keeping your data safe. 'Cause RFID is absolutely not defeatable, right? More »Apple's Future iPhone Patents Show Fingerprint ID For Different Gestures, Plus More
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Announced last year, this technology sounded more than a little bit pie-in-the-sky. A flexible OLED passport? With video capabilities? And it's powered wirelessly? Yet here it is, captured in full sight, on video. More »Nokia Developing Wireless, Accessory-Free Ambient Charging
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The ultra-hip French gaming culture magazine Amusement recently published an RFID-loaded special edition. The company was kind enough to ship me a copy to check out. More »Nabaztag's RFID Mirror Does as Your Gadgets Command
The Nabaztag, known for reading you the news and playing back podcasts, has come out with a new kind of reader: The Violet Mirror RFID reader. More »iPhone Prototype Makes Excellent Use of RFID
What could you do with an iPhone equipped with an RFID reader? A whole lot. But this clip shows the possibilities of just one fuction: Associating everyday objects with video. More »Sony TV Remote Will Steal Your Identity to Order Spiderman 3
Sony's latest Japan-exclusive Bravia W5 and F5 are some fancy LCDs, refreshing at 240Hz and featuring deep contrast ratios. But the neatest thing about these TVs is surely their credit card-reading remote control. More »Scary Video: RFID Passports Secretly Copied on a Lovely Sunday Drive
If you have an RFID-lojacked passport but don't keep it in a faraday cage wallet, this video of Chris Paget's war-driving exploits—plucking information off them from afar—should make you think real hard about it. More »Crazy RFID-Enabled Poker Table Knows Every Card in the Deck
Australian Andrew Milner built a poker table equipped with RFID chips for every single card and HD cameras to track every movement. His setup can even tell where cards lie in a full, vertical deck. More »Hertz Connect Car-On-Demand Service Starts in NYC With iPod and RFID Tricks
Hertz is jumping into Zipcar's territory with its new Connect service, offering short-term rentals via membership for young urban folk to load up on gourmet groceries or Swedish particle board furniture. More »Marathon to SMS Those Too Lazy to Run In It
I've come to the conclusion that despite childhood fantasies, I will never be passionate or self-loathing enough to run a marathon. However, I could track a friend via SMS. More »HIV/AIDS Patients to Be Tagged with RFID Chips
In the ultimate Nazi-inspired exercise of destruction of the most basic human rights, Indonesian politicians are planning to tag all HIV/AIDS patients with radio frequency identification chips. Their objective is to monitor people who had shown "actively sexual behavior". John Manangsang—one of the the Indonesian Himmler-wannabes proposing the law—has no qualms in explaining it: More »This Robot Wants Your Money, Jerks
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Some people are sick of waiting for the RFID implant controversy to play out, and at least one of those people is taking action. YouTube user Quethe has posted a video demonstrating his own RFID implantation technique, involving a terrifying pencil-size needle and a chip designed for pets, which he is using for a predictably unnerving purpose. Also — and Quethe makes this quite clear — this implant does not mean that he is the Antichrist. Phew! Mildly NSFW video and generally unhinged Millenialist ruminations after the jump. More »