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A group of design graduates from London's Royal College of Art have come up with a way to make RFID tags entirely from paper, with no metal or silicon components in a bid to cut down on waste from single-use electronics.
Under their start-up Pulpatronics, the team has devised a chipless, paper-only version of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag – a type of electronic tacker that is attached to products and is most commonly found in clothing stores.
These types of tags have succeeded barcodes in many big retailers, where they allow self-checkout machines to "magically" identify items without scanning anything, while also facilitating inventory management and theft prevention.
However, these types of tags – 18 billion of which are produced every year – are "overengineered", according to Pulpatronics.
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A group of design graduates from London's Royal College of Art have come up with a way to make RFID tags entirely from paper, with no metal or silicon components in a bid to cut down on waste from single-use electronics.
Under their start-up Pulpatronics, the team has devised a chipless, paper-only version of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag – a type of electronic tacker that is attached to products and is most commonly found in clothing stores.
These types of tags have succeeded barcodes in many big retailers, where they allow self-checkout machines to "magically" identify items without scanning anything, while also facilitating inventory management and theft prevention.
However, these types of tags – 18 billion of which are produced every year – are "overengineered", according to Pulpatronics.
Read more on Dezeen: dezeen.com/?p=1988892
Watch Next : Promptac toolkit lets users modify AI designs with hand gestures and real-world materials – youtu.be/SHuoTgF1XAg?feature=shared
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: bit.ly/1tcULvh
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