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MP3 Players and RFID Chips ... and More!

Friday, November 30, 2007

There’s more pondering on the possibilities (just think of the Christmas loot!) now that electro king Samsung’s getting into mass-production of RFID chips.

Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it will start mass producing mobile RFID reader chips next month.

Korean media outlet Digital Chosen offers a couple of examples:

  1. an MP3 player equipped with one of the new RFID reader chips could play music from an album just by holding the player up to the RFID-tagged album packaging.

  2. A microwave oven with a reader chip could automatically set the cooking time for frozen food by retrieving the information from a RFID tag in the food box.

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