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Apple Experimenting With RFID-Enabled iPhone Prototypes?
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One step closer in RFID advancements. Soon, most of you will have a chip implanted in your right hand. There will be no need for driver's license, credit card, id's, money, insurance cards...etc. The RFID chip will hold that information. Even allow you to enter and leave your house and car without an actual key! Just google RFID and you'll see what it is and its intent.
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17
rtdunham
macrumors 6502a
I thought it would constitute catching up to practices in Japan for at least the past several years? I'm curious whether implementing it in the US requires newly-developed technology or merely the adoption of tech that exists and is used elsewhere.
Yes, but but since 540 x 1.5 = 720 there it would be very easy and fast to downsample from a 720 Sensor and thereby most of the 720 quality may stay in data if you play the resulting 540 at 720.
rtdunham
macrumors 6502a
sure, everybody blames things on the Irish, even those so poor they couldn't afford both Ls.
NT1440
macrumors P6
All it would require is America finally getting off its ass and getting back up to date in tech.
Yr Blues
macrumors 68030
mdriftmeyer
macrumors 68040
I'm sure they overlooked the lack of encryption. Thanks for setting Apple's Engineering staff straight.
There are already RFID chips in some clothing. The chips don't have batteries and are tiny.
"It becomes unnervingly easy to imagine a scenario where everything you buy that's more expensive than a Snickers will sport RFID tags, which typically include a 64-bit unique identifier yielding about 18 thousand trillion possible values. KSW-Microtec, a German company, has invented washable RFID tags designed to be sewn into clothing. And according to EE Times, the European central bank is considering embedding RFID tags into banknotes by 2005."
~ http://news.cnet.com/2010-1069-980325.html
Cool,
I was thinking of doing this with a Bladox Waver and slipping it under a Gelaskin on the back. iPhone can indeed run the Java app on the SIM without Jailbreaking.
I'd like to put my work door access card, my Mastercard Paypass and my pulic transport card all in my iPhone. Then I wouldn't need to take my wallet and keys with me all the time. Very nice.
Some of you guys are so paranoid! NFC's range is less than 4 inches. It isn't related to the system used for electronic tolling.
I guess that means a SWP SiM card slot for the next iPhone!
I was thinking of doing this with a Bladox Waver and slipping it under a Gelaskin on the back. iPhone can indeed run the Java app on the SIM without Jailbreaking.
I'd like to put my work door access card, my Mastercard Paypass and my pulic transport card all in my iPhone. Then I wouldn't need to take my wallet and keys with me all the time. Very nice.
Some of you guys are so paranoid! NFC's range is less than 4 inches. It isn't related to the system used for electronic tolling.
I guess that means a SWP SiM card slot for the next iPhone!
Drumjim85
macrumors 68030
NT1440
macrumors P6
OR, they can not be paranoid and take a look at how well its working in the rest of the world. Why America seems to fall behind in tech (and lately it seems almost every aspect) is beyond me.
Rocketman
macrumors 603
RFID is more applicable to applications where only partial info rests with the RFID tag, such as the tag number itself, where the reader understands the ID, its physical and temporal location, and refers to the critical data on a secure internet connection associated with that item. It is used to track shipments, high value inventory items, dogs and small children, model rockets, and is a really stupid thing to have in a passport, especially with any more info than the ID number itself.
The credit cards with the personal info chip have some hardwired security, but if someone physically steals the card they can still use it till it is reported and disabled. CC TOS allows the possessor to use it so you can give it to your daughter or girlfriend, despite it having your name on it.
Rocketman
Not really. I know for a fact that Discover/Novus tested this technology at least 4 years ago. I know because they never asked for their motorola Q back.
rtdunham
macrumors 6502a
he's worried about blind pedophiles. His--and numerous other posts in this thread--show how extreme, and extremely silly, some people's points of view are.
I liked the guy whose signature said something like "science and philosophy, not religion and politics." Some of these "they're coming to get us" guys need to use a little more reason.
imho
A RFID device today can be very cheap printed label for example as replacement of a barcode.
And yes steal alarm is similar tec.
JUST SAY NO TO SPY CHIPS!
If iPhone gets RFID, my iPhone buying days will end.
Read:
http://www.spychips.com/
😡😱😕
If iPhone gets RFID, my iPhone buying days will end.
Read:
http://www.spychips.com/
😡😱😕
My car uses an RFID ignition system (push button start) and some credit cards are already RFID capable...this is theoretically possible if the iPhone had an RFID chip in it.
irmongoose
macrumors 68030
The key to this technology's success in Japan was its adoption by the train/subway companies.
Everyone (in Tokyo, at least) uses the trains, and having RFID-enabled cards or devices meant that people no longer had to bother buying tickets and calculating, each time, how much they had to pay.
So the adoption came in the form of a greatly enhanced user experience.
Once RFIDs were widespread, then, it allowed for numerous other venues to allow added benefit to their services.
In the US, the only service that comes close in having the potential to encourage widespread adoption would be the EasyPass system, because almost everyone has cars.
But do most people regularly use toll roads? I certainly don't.
Maybe they're only including it to appease Japanese customers?
That seems quite far-fetched.
But I really struggle to see how this kind of technology can be pushed only by one manufacturer.
Unless there is major backing from the government or a corporation that provides one of these said services that would encourage consumer adoption, it seems like a bad investment for Apple.
irmongoose
Everyone (in Tokyo, at least) uses the trains, and having RFID-enabled cards or devices meant that people no longer had to bother buying tickets and calculating, each time, how much they had to pay.
So the adoption came in the form of a greatly enhanced user experience.
Once RFIDs were widespread, then, it allowed for numerous other venues to allow added benefit to their services.
In the US, the only service that comes close in having the potential to encourage widespread adoption would be the EasyPass system, because almost everyone has cars.
But do most people regularly use toll roads? I certainly don't.
Maybe they're only including it to appease Japanese customers?
That seems quite far-fetched.
But I really struggle to see how this kind of technology can be pushed only by one manufacturer.
Unless there is major backing from the government or a corporation that provides one of these said services that would encourage consumer adoption, it seems like a bad investment for Apple.
irmongoose
The generation of iPhones that contain an RFID chip will be the generation of iPhones I opt out of purchasing.
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Think this is quite a bad development..
RFID can only lead to bad things. If you tell people that a chip will be implanted in them that will track their location and everything they do, they'll say no.
If you tell them that they can open their car from a few feet away with it or don't have to carry your credit cards around, they'll jump up to get it.
People need to read 1984...Anyone who thinks that it would be crazy for governments to do these things or try these things, then you're really not all that bright..Look no further than the UK
RFID can only lead to bad things. If you tell people that a chip will be implanted in them that will track their location and everything they do, they'll say no.
If you tell them that they can open their car from a few feet away with it or don't have to carry your credit cards around, they'll jump up to get it.
People need to read 1984...Anyone who thinks that it would be crazy for governments to do these things or try these things, then you're really not all that bright..Look no further than the UK