OT: RFID tag

[Tom Palmquist]

GCC Consulting stated the following on 8/18/2004 10:46 AM:
> 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
> 

I can relate to that. It takes a lot of balls to golf like I do 8-)

Tom
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