From: John Smart (john.smart@cox.net)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 16:23:09 MDT
Brian, Alien Technology is at:
http://www.alientechnology.com/index.html
Their RFID localizers are *theoretically* getting close to the five cents
apiece. Folks like Niel Gershenfeld (When Things Start to Think) expect
we'll see local positioning inventory systems (bookstores, etc.) emerge
around the one cent range.
Cheers,
John Smart
http://www.SingularityWatch.com
Understanding Accelerating Change
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Brian Atkins
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: recent Foresight event
>
>
> I wasn't there, but I heard a company called Alien Technologies (I think)
> showed off a vial of 10000 "localizers", each in the 286 range of
> processing
> power. I'm still not clear on whether or not they actually worked or what
> exactly their capabilities are. Anyone have a website for them?
> --
> Brian Atkins
> Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
> http://www.intelligence.org/
>
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