Thin as paper and no larger than a postage stamp, a prototype low-cost RFID tag from Philips Research (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is based entirely on plastic electronics and promises to replace ...

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW), and at Microsoft, have developed a DNA-based molecular tagging system, called Porcupine, which they say could offer a cost-effective alternative to ...

At the International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre – founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO – presents a plastic 64-bit ...

The initiative by the standards organization could bring traditional 1D barcodes into the 2D world of data matrix and QR-codes. After five decades of barcode use at the point of sale, the technology ...