RFID tagging is a much-hyped technology – so much so that a firm that specializes in implementing RFID systems is warning businesses not to fall for the hard sell, because it’s an overkill solution for anything but the hugest companies. That’s not stopping people from coming up with useful implementations for the tiny tags, though – Ocean City, New Jersey has grand plans to make beach management a breeze using RFID, as well as funding their municipal wireless project by charging tourists a small fee. [Meshverse Journal][Image by Hugo*]
Pretty soon we won’t have to do anything for ourselves. Well, OK, that’s an exaggeration, but the list of tasks that robots can now perform as well as a human grows longer by the week. At the more mundane end of the scale (except in cultural terms, perhaps) 
The news out of the Middle East just gets weirder by the day – often with an animal flavour to it, so it seems. Less than a fortnight after 
An article on the Business Week website suggests that