However, many expect the smart tags to become ubiquitous as the price of making the devices falls.
They speculated that consumer activist groups could use smart tags viruses to cause havoc at stores they are targeting.
If viruses do appear in smart tags, said the researchers, they are likely to cause problems for companies that read data off the tags.
There's also NFC inside, but rather than use it for mobile wallet payment services, Sony's promoting its programmable Smart Tags -- accessories similar to Samsung's TecTiles.
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"This is intended as a wake-up call, " said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags.
The researchers showed how to get round the limited computational abilities of the smart tags to use them as an attack vector and corrupt databases holding information about what a company has in storage.
Controlled via a tablet computer, the small autonomous aircraft will photograph poachers and track animals via smart radio tags.
Smart is also in discussions with APCOA, the largest parking garage operator in Europe, to install RFID tags in all smart cars.
Unlike intelligent tags and the idea of a 'smart dust' -- sensor devices in all objects and appliances that are always 'on' -- the person wearing a sensor-enabled coat would be able to choose with whom or what it interacts with.
In 2013 Jackie and Graham Hall hope to use new technology called Smart Position or Temperature (SPOT) tagging which deploys tags which stay on the sharks for up to five years.
The GALAXY Camera also features 'Smart Content Manager', an innovative on-device organization tool which intelligently creates folders, tags faces, and even suggests which pictures to delete when they don't come out as desired.
The smart handbag was constructed with a radio antenna and receiver which listens for signals from radio frequency identification tags attached to important objects.
Baggage tags, banknotes with electronics embedded for security and even postage stamps that can be read by smart franking machines are other possible uses.
SpyderLynk, for instance, has developed Snap Tags, an application-free alternative to a 2D mobile barcode that works with either a standard or smart phone.
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