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" Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices hopes to keep my dad's knees intact by using IBM RFID solutions to alert him to recalls. According to a recent press release, the company will embed the tags into knee and hip replacements and use them to alert patients to any product-related concerns."
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Ben Cervany's new initiative: "VURB is a European framework for policy and design research concerning urban computational systems. The VURB foundation, based in Amsterdam, provides direction and resources to a portfolio of projects investigating how our cultures might come to use networked digital resources to change the way we understand, build, and inhabit cities."
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"Augmented Reality browser Layar announced an upgrade to its service today that adds social features to the act of looking at data on top of the world around you. If you're using Layar to look through your mobile phone's camera and see real estate listings for the buildings nearby, social network messages left by your friends in a particular place or Flickr photos from the area – you can now share that data set's layer with anyone else by sending them its URL."
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"Suica stands for "Super Urban Intelligent Card." Like the Oyster card, the Suica card uses RFID technology. Also noteworthy is that the Suica isn't the only smart card option for Japan's rail system – the Pasmo card is another popular one. There is a Mobile Suica, enabling Osaifu Keitai mobile phone users to use Suica via their phone instead of a card."
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