<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/32eba004-36e0-4fc9-b970-ce31237d6677/02CC8C9E-6EBA-4FE0-B900-1DF15F77F08B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html" href="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.scifi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html">RFID staples tell you where you put down that report</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.scifi.com/img/168ED47B-1AFD-4D5F-81A1-1C65AC148B33" alt="rfid_staples.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html">as you're rummaging through piles of coffee-stained reports on your desk looking for the correct one for your meeting, you may be able to enlist technology to help you find it. <A href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/59c1fe6695ef0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/7.html">Swingline shared</A> an idea with <I>Popular Science</I> in which they would embed radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on <A href="http://www.acco.com/swingline/products.aspx?cat=1012">staples</A> so you can track down wayward documents.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html"><P>These special staples would apparently be able to wirelessly communicate with a location service so you know exactly which trash bin or shredder your document was dumped in. They're probably not suitable for every document to come out of the photocopier, but for sensitive things like scripts or confidential files, they'd be perfect. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html">This seems to be a logical extension of RFID technology in the workplace when you consider these types of transmitters are already potentially being used to <A href="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/06/01/rfid_tracking_s.html">track employees</A>. You could of course staple yourself for fun instead of getting a <A href="http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/01/18/rfid_tattoos_wa.html">RFID tattoo</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/02CC8C9E-6EBA-4FE0-B900-1DF15F77F08B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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