Greetings from Copenhagen. I'm here for the next couple days, giving a talk at the Next 2004 conference on Wednesday.
Popgadget has a piece on RFID in toys:
There’s probably no better way to indoctrinate your kids into the ways of RFID than with the MagiCook Kitchen from Little Tikes, a toy kitchen where all the fake food comes embedded with RIFD tags. Swipe a plastic waffle over the built-in sensor in the fake stovetop and you’ll hear a variety food and cooking-related phrases.
A number of toy companies are looking at RFID uses in toys, but I think this may be the first to actually get to market.
Actually Mattel has been using RFID in Darth Vaders light sabre seen in Star Wars to get an evil sound effect when swiping it next to an RFID reader.
Posted by: Thomas Flemming | December 07, 2004 at 04:35 AM