Lenovo Smartphone for Malaysia

The pricing and availability of Lenovo’s latest lineup of Android smartphones are as below:

• IdeaPhone K900: RM1,699 from July 2013 in Steel Gray
• IdeaPhone S920: RM1,099 from June 2013 in Porcelain White & Blue
• IdeaPhone S820: Pricing & availability TBA
• IdeaPhone A706: RM699 in Black & White/Grey
• IdeaPhone A390: RM399 in Black Slate & White

" Escape Plan " the movie by Stallone wearing a 2D barcode to track future prisoners...

tracking pilgrims using RFID

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/8496/InTech-A_case_study_of_an_rfid_based_system_for_pilgrims_identification_and_tracking.pdf   Here is the link for tracking pilgrims using rfid. Don't know if this is feasible as cost is high and defeats the purpose if no one wears the tag or want to be track.

Hi , Have not been updating as busy with projects...

talking assistant?

Linking talking assistant to rfid tags?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/software/diy-jarvis-digital-assistant

Asus FonePad launch 2013

courtesy of Soyacincau.com

The ASUS FonePad has been spotted at SenHeng’s IT catalog with the retail price tag of RM849.00. Officially announced at MWC 2013, it didn’t take too long for the Taiwanese maker to release it here in Malaysia
To recap on the device, the ASUS FonePad has similar Nexus 7 like dimensions with an aluminium body instead of the usual textured plastic. Like its name suggests, the FonePad allows you to make phone calls and it comes with the earpiece speaker at the top. The front 7″ IPS display pushes a similar 1280×800 pixel resolution that gives a pixel density of 216ppi.

Instead of the usual Quad-Core processor, the FonePad is powered by Intel’s Atom 1.2GHz processor mated with 1GB of RAM and it comes with 8GB of storage. Unlike the Nexus 7, the FonePad comes with expandable microSD memory slot and has a 3MP camera at the back with a front facing 1.2MP camera. Operating system wise, it runs on a recent Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. For RM849, this is a worthy alternative to the iPad mini and even the Nexus 7.

You can check out our hands-on experience with the ASUS FonePad over here.

RFID gamer

You might be surprised to hear that radio frequency identification has a fun side, especially when it involves tracking your every movement. Even so, a number of adventure-seekers are strapping RFID tags and PDAs onto their wrists in order to take part in a new interactive game. The goal: to escape from Mazzinia, a futuristic high-security jail.

Named La Fuga (The Breakout), the game opened this month at a former bank not far from the Real Madrid Stadium in northern Madrid. The facility can host up to 300 players at a time, each of whom tries to solve quizzes and pass through different obstacles in order to escape.

Every player receives a console consisting of a specially designed PDA worn on the wrist. Between the PDA and its wrist strap is a passive RFID tag with a unique ID number used to locate and identify each player during the game.

"RFID provided an easy way to identify every player individually," says Josep Cabestany at Négone, a Madrid-based developer of interactive games. The company invested €16.3 million to design and produce the technology on which La Fuga is based, and to convert the bank into the equivalent of a three-dimensional game board.

The PDA communicates to the game system by means of wireless technology developed by Négone. A player uses the console to answer the questions, and to receive information such as score, battery level or time left.

"The game system activates the quizzes, the doors and the tricks in response to the detection of the tags. This allows the system to keep track of the gaming information of each player and generate each player's game individually," Cabestany says.

RFID interrogators (readers) placed in doorways and in other areas of the game rooms enable the application to detect a player's location, and to use that information to drive the gamer's experience. For example, when the interrogator detects a person in a certain location, the system might display questions on the PDA screen that he or she must answer in order to progress. On the other hand, it might signal doors to open. "There can be more than 10 readers per room, totaling about 200 in the whole center," says Cabestany.

Négone says it developed both the PDAs and the RFID interrogators. For the tags, however, the company turned to Swiss RFID transponder specialist Sokymat, which also helped Négone determine how to embed the tags in the wristband.

The system uses Sokymat's passive 125 kHz Clear Disc tags. In selecting the tags to be used, Négone considered the technical, financial and practical requirements of its system. "We didn't need a fast data transfer, or to perform write operations, but as the tags were going to be embedded in plastic and close to the player's body, using low frequency was the best solution," says Cabestany. While the performance of all RF signals can be adversely affected by metal or water, low frequencies are better able to penetrate people’s bodies and other objects with high water content. Therefore, 125 kHz tags were deemed best suited to this application.

In addition, because Négone needed to deploy a large number of interrogators in its gaming center, it wanted to reduce the potential of interference from other game players' tags. The 125 kHz system offered a read range of about 1 foot, which well suited the company's requirements. However, the application did require a larger than usual antenna to get the required read performance. Sokymat's Clear Disc tags come in standard diameters of 20 millimeters and 30 millimeters, but this application uses a specially produced version with a 50-millimeter antenna.

CAEN Rfid provider

More info on Caen, click here.

http://www.caenrfid.com/en/SalesNetwork.jsp

rfid in construction industry

Can rfid used in construction industry? Worth a try.
by    S aeed  Banihashemi , Mahmoud  Shakouri  Hassanabadi  and  Mohammad  Mahdi  Tahmasebi -  from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor

Psion Teklogix rfid - case study

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJvtUs02kJ8  Check out this video

Samsung Galaxy 3 with rfid reader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzpZIGknoAc  Check this out !

How install rfid successfully

How install RFID frame successfully   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbadHCQrx64

Taipei rfid library

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdrT3ERg7Go  Click to view Youtube on singapore rfid library.

Chinese new year

Another new 2013, and Chinese new year has come and gone. Hope everyone have good weekend.