Monday, July 03, 2006

RFID comes of age / Dallas Morning News, 2 Jul 2006

http://digbig.com/4krre
"Industry explodes as radio tags provide means to track just about anything. When the fifth digital thermometer went missing last fall from the Mercy Hospital emergency department, the fed-up nurses decided that extraordinary measures were necessary to prevent any more of the $200 instruments from getting away. Determined to catch the thief, they glued radio frequency identification devices that normally would go on patient bracelets to the rest of their thermometers. It wasn't long before the culprit was caught."