alt Hacker NewsPutting a chip on everything sounds wasteful and worse for the environment than a printed piece of paper. Not the right direction to go in.
Putting a chip on everything sounds wasteful and worse for the environment than a printed piece of paper. Not the right direction to go in.
The chips are sub-cents per unit in terms of cost and weigh milligrams. RFID chips come in many flavours the ones most used are passive, i.e. basically just a bunch of wires printed on a tiny piece of carrier material. The label on a shirt contains more resources by weight.