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   Maybe it's the sense of touch?

   

   dorpus, Apr 4th, 2003 @ 4:01pm

   
   

   Shirts are annoying enough with the nylon labels rubbing the backs of our necks. Unless the RFID chip can be made very small or very flexible, it will annoy users. And given the clientele of upscale women, maybe there were concerns that the chip could somehow be used for voyeurism?
   
   

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   easier ways

   

   Huw, Apr 5th, 2003 @ 1:30am

   
   

   What's wrong with just putting a barcode on one side of the tag? Certainly cheaper than 'smart tags'.

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   Sense of touch + cost of embedding process

   

   Michaela Stephens, Apr 5th, 2003 @ 6:57pm

   
   

   Very true, the nylon labels rubbing the back of our necks may feel nice compared to a microchip rubbing the back of our necks.
   The additional issue of cost is also related to this. (As background, the scratchy nylon tags are a result of a cost-reducing process of attaching a tag on the shirt in the first place. This process usually involves placing a hot iron against the tag while it is held in place so that the tag will melt to the shirt. Also, this process is very quick, so that mass-production is not hindered.) Clothing manufacturers would have to figure out a cheap fast way of bonding the chip onto the tag and bonding the tag onto the shirt. Obviously a hot iron would be bad for the chip package.
   If they back-pedal and decide not to use the chips after all, it would probably be because they would have done the math and found that it would cost more to attach the chips to tags than it would to have clothes stolen occasionally.

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   Re: easier ways

   

   mhh5, Apr 7th, 2003 @ 12:16am

   
   

   how about "nanobarcodes"

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