OT: RFID tag

[GCC Consulting]

Saw this article.  Thought it might give some of you a smile :)


His drives always hooked. Or sliced. Or simply disappeared into a stand of
trees. So 10 years ago, mediocre golfer and software executive Chris Savarese
swore he'd come up with a better way to find his lost balls. He did. This
summer, his startup, Radar Golf, begins taking orders for the first golf-ball
locator.

The system works like this: Radio-frequency ID tags smaller than a grain of rice
are embedded in the core of a ball during the manufacturing process. When the
ball disappears into the bushes, the duffer activates a handheld device that
sends out a 915-MHz signal. The ball sends back its own signal, causing the
handheld to beep faster and at a higher pitch as it gets closer to the ball.

Savarese sells the unit (with a dozen of the RFID balls) on the Web for $249. He
predicts that handicaps across the country will start to fall as golfers avoid
the stroke-and-distance penalty for lost balls. If only he could invent
something to help the balls find the cup.

- Joshua Davis

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting