Friday, March 13, 2009

My $1,000,000 idea


So, do you ever have one of those ideas that you just know is so cool but you lack the motivation to do anything with it, and then out of the blue some months/years later you see your idea as reality?

Well, about 5 years ago when RFID was in the news I had this idea of a way to track all the stuff in my house. Basically my idea was to install RFID tags in anything that I wanted to inventory and needed to find quickly.

  • Car keys
  • Glasses
  • Wallet
  • Cat
Basically anything that seems to get misplaced often enough to warrant tracking.

Then with a simple RFID console I would quickly "lookup" the item in question.

Well similar ideas using wireless transmitters are now becoming household items.

It's just a matter of time before we can find other common household items with much smaller tracking devices.

1 Comments:

At March 26, 2009 5:44 AM , Anonymous You said...

That is an awesome idea! The only downside is that the typical RFID tag has a range of about 1 foot. Still . . .

 

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