Futuristic uses of RFID

Well, it’s a new year! Out there in the blogosphere I found an exciting list of future uses of RFID expected to hit the scene in 2007.

It’s a terrific summary of the future of the technology and I strongly encourage you to hop on over to the RFIDLowdown to view it in its entirety. In the meantime, here's a few of my favorites:

39. Finding golf balls: Innovative transponders and radar corner reflectors in golf balls can save your precious golfing time. Lost balls are detected by the reflection of the radiation search beam over a short distance.

42. Sorting garbage: Garbage facilities that don’t require you to sort your rubbish – the trucks pick up your refuse, dump it on conveyor belts at the garbage facility, and a reader automatically picks up the information on the tagged items to redirect them to suitable recycling bins.

44. Chips in soccer balls: Remember those ugly brawls that broke out on the soccer field over the ball crossing or not crossing the goal line? FIFA, Adidas-Solomon AG, the Fraunhofer Institute, and software company Cairos Technologies have developed an RFID-embedded soccer ball to put an effective end to these skirmishes.