Archive for September, 2004

Tesco Gillette RFID trial - privacy concerns

Monday, September 27th, 2004

In January 2003 Tesco and Wal-Mart announced plans to install ’smart shelves’ to keep track of sales of RFID-tagged Gillette Mach3 razor blades.
The Tesco trial in Cambridge, UK was met with criticism, especially after the US based Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy and Invasion and Numbering revealed in July 2003 that anyone taking a pack of blades from the shelf had their picture taken.
The shelf disappeared soon after and it appears that Tesco is limiting the use of RFIDs to the less controversial tagging of whole pallets and cases, for the time being.

Sony begins mass production of full-color OLED displays

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

According to a press release

This month, Sony Corporation will commence mass production of a full-color Organic Light Emitting Diode (hereafter OLED) display, which will be first implemented in the new Sony CLIE ‘PEG-VZ90′ personal entertainment handheld […].

The top-emitting, 3.8 inch display sports a resolution of 480×320 and a brightness of 150 cd per square meter.

sony oled display