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Bored sitting around eating all those Turkey leftovers? Why not Hack your hand by implanting your own RFID tag! This is certainly one way of tracking people round your smart home, we're just not sure we'd want to try it...

Just received this from Lets Automate... "www.letsautomate.com, the UK's largest on-line Home Automation distributor, are proud to be the Distributor for the iAutomate Homeseer compatible RFID products, and stock has arrived and is ready to ship...

The BBC are running the following piece on their News site...

"Wander into your local branch of Woolworths, B&Q, Argos or Homebase and you will see boxes of CCTV systems stacked alongside more traditional homewares. Prices start at under £30 for a basic black-and-white device. Clearly, you no longer have to be a celebrity, millionaire industrialist or politician to have cameras trained on your doorstep...

"Uk Biometrics have brought a biomtric scanner out which can control your lights, garage, alaram or even your door, it can be incorparated in to almost everything.  The FP3000 consists of an inside unit (for control, capturing and removing users) and a scanning unit (to capture and encode the fingerprint data). Both units are connected by means of codes from the time they are initilised. The inside unit is connected to a 220-240 V/AC power source as well as a four-core cable to the scanner...

The first commercially available RFID kit aimed at the home automation market is now availale...

"This RFID Starter kit inludes virtually everything you need to get started with RFID and automation whether it is in your home or business. The kit includes HomeSeer v1.7.3, Our RFID Software Plug-In, One R500HA Long Range RFID Reader, and The R500HA Breakout Cable with Power Supply (Works in UK too). Just add a variety of long range RFID tags from our selection online for autos, people, and physical assets...