Day: August 5, 2004

RFID gets skin-deep alternative – LANs – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com For more info click on above link One German start-up has created an alternative to RFID that is likely to get under consumers’ skin. Ident Technologies has dreamt up Skinplex – which could be used in all the same ways as RFID and Bluetooth – but uses a different transmitter: human skin. Like RFID, Skinplex works by reading a unique identifier remotely using an electromagnetic signal, normally between a microchip and a reader. Unlike RFID, however, Skinplex uses the skin to transmit the