I originally had two different titles for this post. The first was “Columbarium 2.0″ but given how long it took me to find the word for “a room full of urns full of cremains” I figured I stood a good chance of overtaxing everyone’s patience for obscure references.
The story is, indeed, related to cremated remains. But it’s also about personalized content. Yup – it’s about bringing your RFID card to a columbarium (or whatever they call it in Japan), swiping it in a private viewing area, and having a computer locate the cremains of your dearly departed from within it’s underground dead-abase and bring them up through a little viewport for you. It’s wildly high-tech and probably works better than those crazy RFID-based luggage handlers in airports. If the Japanese can use an RFID badge to bring you personalized contents doesn’t it seem more within your reach to use RFID badges at trade shows to deliver personalized content?
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Oh, and my other title for this post? “RFID Technology Pulls Your Grandma out of it’s Ash Hole”
From CSCOUT
