Two babies had been given the wrong name tags - and the wrong parents.
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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Cao Gadgets is attempting to fill that niche with its functionally named Wireless Sensor Tags -- small devices which monitor movement and temperature, notifying you if anything's amiss.
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After first making a few tweaks to overcome some of Gingerbread's limitations -- it only uses NFC for reading tags -- they were able to develop a few social-minded applications that make use of the P2P functionality possible with NFC.
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No word yet on what would happen to these tags post-digestion, though our inner 13-year-olds are giggling at the possibilities.
Staggering price-tags perpetuate that chic aura that permeates all-things-Apple.
Additionally, the DEV-50V model includes a built-in GPS receiver that automatically geo-tags video clips and photos.
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The result: with the March 7 Oscars telecast mere weeks away, price-tags on remaining spots are poised to benefit.
In a bizarre twist on competitive pricing, high price-tags are the entire point of a piece of Apple hardware.
The first reason is that modern warships are much more capable than their predecessors, and they have price-tags to match.
Using a combination of radio-tags and direct observations, the researchers analysed 94 wolves as they hunted elk in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Into this mass of data the producers have injected cross-references and geo-tags, films and sound clips, archival photographs and rare historical maps.
Passing over the women, she ear-tags the male members of the flock.
Making cheaper tags using roll-to-roll would dramatically extend the range of uses.
Steve Bohme at BML says many publishers are deliberately slapping higher price-tags on their titles, anticipating that retailers will want to discount them.
Frequent spenders might want to wear tags in high-end malls that would trigger text messages and videos about sales as they walk the mall.
And most recently, a BBC film crew, 20km away, filmed a cat hunting with the unmistakable matching green ear tags that Bayad-e-Kohsaar was fitted!
Some of those tags then auto-populate a descriptive box that appears whenever any user hovers his or her mouse over a link to a particular video.
From her unobstructed vantage point, she captures sleek runway images, filters and captions them with a dash of whimsy, attaching appropriate hash-tags and handles to share the love.
The one thing he did understand was their astronomical price-tags.
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The Automobile Association urged members not to sign up for the so-called e-tags, which provide for toll discounts but also allow bank accounts to be charged every time a car passes under one of the gantries.
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It uses NFC-equipped tags that pop into the end of each club and a hip-mounted "GYG" device to collect the data with a battery life of two rounds (about 8 hours) -- and no need to pack a smartphone or tablet onto the course.
Unfortunately two of the tags were lost - they skimmed on the water just before they hit the walruses, sinking to the bottom of the sea, but another one, launched by Ole with the harpoon, hit a walrus squarely between the shoulders - the perfect place for a sat-tag.
They could be used to make cheap radio-frequency identity tags in essence, printable bar-codes that transmit an identifying code in response to a pulsed radio signal.
However, BASC's James Scott warned that plans to add identification tags to each snare would not prevent anti-snaring campaigners from copying tags and illegally setting snares.
While the stickers come with pre-defined tags, they are customizable to accommodate your particular sensibilities.
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Nineteen years later, Mandy semi-survived, had three months clean, some fluorescent key-ring tags to prove it.
Before the modern-day foragers were let loose, radio-frequency tags, like those used in swipe cards, were wrapped around everyone's dominant wrist.
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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