The NutriSmart system would put RFIDs into your food for enhanced information
May 31, 2011 by Katie Gatto 
(PhysOrg.com) -- RFID, short for Radio Frequency ID, tags have found their way into a wide variety of applications. These pellets, which are often roughly the same size as a grain of rice, can help us to be reunited with our lost pets, keep towels inside the hotel, and keep big box stores shipping the right boxes to the right places at the right time.
In time you may even find them inside your own stomach. At least they will be there if Hannes Harms has anything to say about it. Mr. Harms, who is currently a design engineering student at the Royal College of Art in London, has designed the NutriSmart system. The system is based on edible RFID tags that will tell you more about your food then you ever wanted to know.
The system would be able to not only give you complete nutritional data on the food that you are about to consume, but able to tell you the entire supply chain behind everything that you are putting into your mouth. While this could be good news for diabetics, people with serious food allergies, and vegans, it also has applications outside of the medical.
A properly equipped refrigerator would be able to give the user a look at everything that the box contains, and when it is going to go bad.
The system can also be paired with a "Smart plate", which would allow the embedded reader in the dish to tell you about the caloric and nutrition information about what you are eating, as well as how many miles it has come to be on your plate. The data can then be sent to your cell phone, via a Bluetooth connection.
No word yet about what happens to the tags when you are finished with them.
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Should be able tell which poo belongs to who. Waste treatment plants will be data centers.
May 31, 2011
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Oooh! I didn't think of THAT! Every door you walk through could read your stomach contents... including your employer who could send it directly to your health insurance provider. Pretty scary to think of the type of abuse this could cause, assuming they don't digest quickly. Pretty freakin' cool though!
Gives new meaning to "wanting to get off the grid".
Jun 01, 2011
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Jun 01, 2011
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That would be a great use for them... not sure if I care for them in the actual food though.
Vendicar, WTH? I reported you for abuse because your comment violates many of Physorg's comments guidelines of which the link can be found at the bottom of all the comment pages...
Here', I'll post it again here in case you have trouble finding it:
http://www.physor...omments/
Enough with the trolling and baiting for fights. Physorg's comments guidelines are reasonable and essentially say, be civil and stay on topic. Nobody cares that you hate people who disagree with your politics. Keep it to yourself.
Jun 04, 2011
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I have some conservative viewpoints. These so called 'progressive' advances that are being introduced are mostly aimed at controlling and deforming humanity.
But well hey I'm not stopping anyone from deforming and enslaving themselves. Best of luck :)
Jun 04, 2011
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http://www.natura...ood.html
They think it's an evil plot, and they say why. Minor problem is that they are not "whack tard conservatives" but if it makes you feel better, you can pretend they are.
Jun 06, 2011
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ROTFLOL! Excellent! Vendicar looks for reasons to hate people who don't conform to his thought process (he has no tolerance of people who are different than he is), creates straw-men, and puts the immature "whack tard conservative" label on those straw-men. When no good reason exists, he apparently makes up reasons, as in this thread. Funny when the straw-man he thought he created turns out to have already existed as real and were not who he wanted everyone to think they were, but actually turns out to be more closely related to what he perceives as "his" people.
Love it!
Jun 10, 2011
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