Assignment: "Find related applications broader than medical paramedic emergency use."
Well...hmmmm....trying to think outside the box on this one. What other medical situations revolve around technology to aid human life? What about applications not relating to health? Such as...
Art? RFID sniper rifle. (Not real, but plays on the privacy issue) link via boingboing and nextbigthing
Navy? ACCCKKK they stole my thesis!
Cell Phone Security? Nokia to release a built in tag in phones.
Pervasive knowledge as fun? Phillips thinks so.
Okay, so my head is starting to hurt. How can I nail down what RFID really encompases and really provides us? Primarily, we are thinking identification, which leads to other things such as security and presence. Give RFID some information to hold, then what happens? We now have more data to sift through, more information. But that's not the point of this excercise.
Aha!
Good ol' intel is working on improving life from a tech standpoint.
So...Alzheimers is a disease that can affect memory. Memory can be affected with a good reminding tool. How about RFID? Watching grandma this closely could be...well...interesting...
Now a host of things pop up. Monitoring bone joints by placing a small RFID tag and reader on both bones of a joint and monitoring the distance between each. This could be a great way to help people go through rehab and monitor progress.
Whoa, let's back up a sec, how about things on a gene sized scale? Looks like PharmaSeq has an interesting approach. Tiny RFID chips that are powered by light! And when I say tiny, I'm talkin' 500 microns here. Wow.
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