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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (819)	5/31/2001 1:05:24 PM
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Building a better Bar Code: New Technology prints Radio Chip Source: ABC News Wed May 2, 2001 -- We've all become familiar with the Universal Product Code, that strip of thin black lines found on practically every consumer product. In the works now from Motorola is the Electronic Product Code. Such "smart labels" have been around for a while and used mainly to inventory pallets in warehouses or track the progress of huge shipping containers as they travel en route to their destinations. But these systems, developed by companies such as Symbol Technology, have been too expensive to produce on a massive scale such as one label for every item on a supermarket shelf. "We've got a technology that actually results in the packaging of the chip being at basically its lowest possible cost by its printed antenna," says Richard Krueger, Director of Business Development of the World Wide Smart Card Solutions Division of Motorola. "As the box is going through the printer, through the press, I'm actually printing an antenna. It's two patches of carbon ink," Krueger explained. What's more, since the BiStatix label can be integrated into a printing process, it's much easier to produce on ordinary items such as cereal boxes or bottles of mouthwash. Krueger says product information can be accessed as needed with the convenience of wireless communications. "From distribution down to retail, from retail into the consumer's hands, and then immediate feedback of that information through sensors back to the supply chain to replenish the shelf." But the potential uses of the BiStatix label doesn't stop once you leave the store. Since the embedded chip can store all sorts of information, it could help make a consumer's life a little easier. A frozen dinner with a smart label could transmit cooking instruction to a microwave oven equipped with the appropriate radio receiver. Krueger says the Bistatix chip could be integrated into tickets for sporting events or theme parks as a way to thwart bogus tickets. "You get throughput improvement at the turnstiles, it's automated and you would begin to cut down the counterfeit ticket business." Other possible uses for the new technology include security and event ticketing. "You can issue temporary passes to guests, to contractors and provide them limited access," Krueger explains. "There would be a unique identification in the system that a particular recipient of that badge or card is in the building at a certain time and place." Comments: All this new cutting edge technology raises the question, could an electronic people code be far behind? Notice the "possible uses for the new technology include security and event ticketing". In this way, it already does have an application to be used on people! Yet another sign we are speeding toward the tribulation, as we see everything being set up for it now! "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."-Revelation 13:16,17 upway.com