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Prior to this breakthrough, RFID tags, which appear in many items like credit cards and passports, cost between 7- and 15-cents to create. Using common methods like roll-to-roll printing, ink-jets and silicone rubber-stamping, the South Korean scientists have pushed the manufacturing cost down to about 3-cents per tag. They believe that, by laying down all the nanotube ink layers at once, the production costs could eventually dip down to 1-cent. But don't expect to see these at your local grocery store just yet. The current plastic labels are about three-times larger than your average bar code. Plus, there are storage and signal issues to confront before the labels can be widely used.
We wish these researchers the best of luck. After all, any way that we can get our Pop Tarts back to our apartments more quickly sounds great to us. [From: Popular Science]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsBMar 26th 2010 8:46AM
What's the big rush??? Seriously..
Wish BelkinMar 27th 2010 11:19AM
Welcome to the brave new world.
King DavidMar 27th 2010 12:17PM
Jeeze!! I have a hard enough time CONSTANTLY CHECKING THAT THE BAR CODE SCAN HAS THE CORRECT PRICE ASSOCIATED WITH IT (like at WalMart and Winn Dixie - two of the BIGGEST OFFENDERS WHO JUST DON'T CARE WHEN YOU CATCH THEM AND COMPLAIN - THEY JUST IGNORE YOU vs. back in Pittsburgh where the stores give the purchase of a "caught" item to you free) let alone have to deal with some process where a "magic scanner" will allow me to get through the line faster when, like last night, a broad got into the "20 items or less" line with over 30 items and the WalMart checker didn't say a word - vs. me standing there and counting the items out loud but couldn't embarass her because NO ONE CARES!!). These "X items or less" lines should SHUT OFF when the number is reached and a new customer HAS to be moved up and to Hell with the idiot who tried to get through. Besides, if I'm stuck in a line I take one of the magazines (NO GOSSIP PAPERS) that is for sale in the "impulse buy" rack and read it until I get to check out, then put it back. At least I got to "entertain and enlighten" myself for awhile.
tlooneyladyMar 27th 2010 7:47AM
We just about dont go to the groc store anymore if we can get around it. Too much junk food. Too many people and too much hassel. One of these days their going to require little chips in your forehead..... not me.........
al schraderMar 27th 2010 7:58AM
B, hard to believe you said this. I'm one of the guys that invented this.
They give you a plastic shopping cart and you fill it with your grocery items.
Then you simply pass it between two sensor poles at the check-out & the computer senses & rings up all of it with out ever taking it out of your cart.
Zip, it's that fast. No big teeth check-out lady waving bar codes, just in, pay, out....Alfred-
dugandobMar 27th 2010 9:19AM
So after we wheel our cart through the check out and it's scanned, do we now have to bag our own grocery's? Then haul them out to our car and unload them? How's that going to work? I'm sick of paying more for less. Less grocery's, less service, less everything. I tired of dealing with people that work in a store and they think it's a privilege that we shop at their store. And God forbid if we ask a question,and get that blank stare, and the Oh I don't know that. For once I'd like to go into a store and if I ask a question someone could answer it without using their little walkie talkie's. What ever happened to hiring people that actually knew what they were doing?
thumper49047Mar 27th 2010 10:44AM
This would eliminate jobs not create them!!
Part-time jobs help yes and aren't a final way of creating jobs but at this point any job Americans have help.
Maxdee 55Mar 27th 2010 1:15PM
Yeah you invented it.
jenniferMar 27th 2010 1:45PM
Al Schrader, I am one of those "big teethed" cashiers you were talking about and find your comment very repulsive. Thankfully in my case I only work the job part time but many of my fellow cashiers rely on their jobs as their only source of income. We work at one of the largest grocery store chains in America and actually have developed friendships with out customers. Your labels could possibly make customer service go to the dogs. You yourself are a dog.
DanMar 27th 2010 8:28AM
I think it's a Great idea! No more waiting for 30 to 45 minutes just to start unloading your cart, then the 15 minutes to unload/reload. I see a problem as to inaccurate scans, such as a wrong price being charged... as we see now. Once the bugs are worked out, I know I'll like it!
ChristineMar 27th 2010 8:50AM
Dan, where do you live? I've never waited that long in any line anywhere.
CarolMar 27th 2010 8:42AM
Sounds like there will be a lot more people losing jobs.
MelissaBMar 27th 2010 8:53AM
I think this is great. I could see an application for the home that picks up the data and records it to a computer to track what you've purchased and what has been used/discarded. Software could help you plan meals with what you have on hand, tell you what you need to purchase, help you track costs for budgeting and nutritional info for health purposes. I hate when I buy something perishable only to lose it in the depths of the fridge until it's too late to consume. It's equally aggravating to buy some food item, thinking I am out, only to return home and find I've already got that item, it was just in the wrong section of the pantry.
SammyMar 27th 2010 9:19AM
Melissa, if you are really so pitiful you have to have a machine do all the boring everyday tasks for you, I really feel sorry for you. You are a perfect example of why so many other countries see America as stupid, because we can't do anything for ourselves, we have to "have an app for that."
CynthiaMar 27th 2010 9:23AM
Lighten up, Sammy. The world is changing and an appreciation of opportunities found in new technology does not make a person lazy.
paulMar 27th 2010 8:58AM
dont go shopping on sunday afternoon and you wont wait so long, i dont wait over 5 min anytime i go shopping. and whats the big rush with people these days? hurry to get home and do nothing
DanMar 27th 2010 9:05AM
When shopping for a family of 5, on my day off, Saturday, with 3 kids on my side, at a Tampa, FL Walmart, (All I can afford), time is critical. When's the last time you shopped with children?
EarlMar 27th 2010 9:11AM
Ok let`s see.......
costs only .15 cents to produce......
cost 1.25 to ship overseas.......
cost .75 cents to attach it to packages.....
costs .25 cents for FCC regulation
machine to read cost 4,000 dollars......
are you getting the picture....?
Thought the article did not include all of these add-ons...you know they have to be there....sooooooo that will make a $1.00 item turn into a $5.00 item...and Ill bet the dummocraps will create a10,000 page bill requiring all business to use this and ram it down our throats too!!!!!
CynthiaMar 27th 2010 9:20AM
Think of this: The new tag will cost less than 1 cent. You will Fill up your own grocery bags as you shop, then just push your cart through a scanner as you leave. You will scan your card and leave. No waiting in line, fewer cashiers will be needed, less theft...all of this equals lower prices. How are you getting a price INCREASE out of this idea?
celmersMar 27th 2010 10:29AM
sounds like you are a republican how about a job