Now Introducing a Really Smart RFID Washing Machine.
There are so many rules when it comes to doing laundry. You have to separate your colors and whites, towels and linens, make a dry cleaning pile, and then there’s our personal preferences for separation – everyone has their own rules. But beyond that, we have to decide what we are going to put in … Read more
Dance to the Beat of my…RFID?
I think it’s obvious to any consumer that when you go shopping you are more likely to stay in a store that is playing music that you like. Clearly, everyone has different taste in music; my mother would steer clear from Abercrombie because of the loud blaring club music, but would be inclined to enter … Read more
Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s Roll Out the Big (RFID) Guns
My favorite store has come quite a long way over the years. The original Bloomingdale’s store was a few attached townhouses on East 60th street which still bear the legend “Bloomingdale Brothers.” (Actually, the very first original store was on East 56th street, but I digress.) Today, it is a complex of attached buildings that … Read more
Would You Let RFID Set You Up?
Have you ever signed up for dating sites like eHarmony or OK Cupid just to find out that you’ve been matched up with your sibling or first cousin, or perhaps the neighborhood pedophile? Luckily, I’ve never had to resort to these sites, but my friends have and after returning from their blind dates, they always … Read more
Finding Crap on Canal Street is Hard Enough, RFID is Now Making it Even Harder.
The downfall of lower Manhattan’s Canal Street was a very depressing time of my life. You used to be able to stroll along Canal Street, from the west side to the east, and be able to find all sorts of different designer bags, sunglasses, wallets, jewelry, sneakers, whatever you wanted. Then all of a sudden … Read more
