RFID Tattoo for Tracking Cattle and Humans 181
ack154 writes "The Register reports that a St Louis based company, Somark Innovations, has successfully tested RFID tattoos to be used for tracking cattle and other animals. Details are limited for the actual tattoo, but it's said to contain no metals and can be read up to about four feet away. Engadget has some more details on the matter. And yes, the article does mention RFID tattoos are possible for people, specifically the military. From the article: 'The system developed by Somark uses an array of needles to quickly inject a pattern of dots into each animal, with the pattern changing for each injection. This pattern can then be read from over a meter away using a proprietary reader operating at high frequency.'"
Re:Could have just said 'tracking cattle' (Score:3, Funny)
Then it would be a real news site and not Slashdot. They have to keep raising the bar to set themselves apart from the rest!
Animals! (Score:5, Funny)
So when does every member of Congress receive their tattoo?
Re:Could have just said 'tracking cattle' (Score:2, Funny)
By any chance (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Tattoos as ID? (Score:2, Funny)
When they came for the Angus, I didn't protest, because I wasn't an Angus
When they came for the Herefords, I didn't protest, because I wasn't a Hereford
When they came for the sheep, there was no on left to protest for me
Re:Could have just said 'tracking cattle' (Score:3, Funny)
However, unlike Godwin's law, the person who brings up pedophillia usually ends up "winning" the argument, or at least persuading the most amount of people.