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RFID chips to smoke out cigarette smugglers
Submitted by MichaelVail on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 7:51pm.
LONDON — The U.K Government is expected to reveal further details this week in its pre-budget financial review of a scheme to embed RFID tags in each pack of cigarette sold in the country in an effort to stop counterfeiting and tobacco smuggling.
Brits Used Like Guinea-Pigs In Chemical Terror Tests
Submitted by MichaelVail on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 3:09am.
MILLIONS of Londoners are being used as guinea-pigs in secret chemical warfare experiments.
They are being sprayed with a gas that pressurises tennis balls to see how it travels in the air.
And the findings will help deal with poison gas or biological attacks by al-Qaeda terrorists.
The subway tunnel as video billboard
Submitted by MichaelVail on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 2:37am.
If you've been in a subway car in San Francisco, London, Boston, Rio de Janeiro or one of several other cities recently and thought you saw a short film playing along the dark walls of the tunnels, you're not going crazy.
In fact, what you saw was one of the latest forms of advertising technology, which is slowly taking over one of transit riders' last refuges from commercial messages.
The technology, which comes from companies such as Canada's SideTrack and New York-based Submedia, is just what it sounds like: ads displayed on subway tunnel walls in nearly 10 cities worldwide promoting products from companies including Microsoft, Target, Coca-Cola, Reebok and Honda.
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