In a previous post, I talked about 5 wireless tech inventions that don’t exist yet. Some were serious, some fun, and some nonsense, as one reader pointed out in the comments. Here are five more ideas that use one or more forms of wireless technology that some designer/ inventor might just be dreaming up. Feel [...]

With the emerging of applications using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) wireless technology, there are expected to be many career opportunities over the next decade. Here are three primary areas where jobs will be created:

Manufacturing of RFID technologies, such as RF tags, antennas, smartcards, readers.
Design of RFID-based applications to a whole host of industries and methodologies, [...]

With all the latest wireless technologies (RFID, Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi) available these days, it’s interesting to imagine how they might be combined into new applications with consumer electronics to create hybrid uses. Some of the ideas in the list below are serious, some just for fun. It’s not so much the wireless technology nor the [...]

[Warning: Sensitive material ahead.] For over 20 years now, there has been a loose group of people in the United States who, if they have their way, will influence the government into using RFID (Radio Frequency IDentificaton) technology to track human beings. The little I know of this group comes from one of my college [...]

Back in early 1982, Ottawa (Canada’s capital) city’s transit system was trying out a new service whereby you could call a phone number and find out when the next bus for your stop (coded with a unique number) would be arriving. The way the system worked was that you called a unique phone number for [...]

Now that the public version of the Internet is over 10 years old, most Internet-savvy people are aware of the threats of computer viruses, worms, trojan attacks, and to a lesser degree, phishing. But while it’s understandable that fraud can be commited with these means (mostly using email as a carrier), it comes as a [...]