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Telepathx Develops Accident-Detecting System Linked to Auto Airbags The company's Enterprise Call Box is designed to automatically notify transportation departments and emergency responders.

Georgia Tech Researchers Test RFID's Effects on Implanted Medical Devices The results will be used to reduce the potential for RFID signals to cause pacemakers and other equipment to malfunction.

Ocean City Plans to RFID-enable Its Beaches The N.J. municipality hopes to issue RFID wristbands to serve as beach passes, and provide visitors a means of cashless payment for food and parking. RFID would also help keep beaches clean.

RFID Helped Monkey Zoo Ease Crowding To help determine where, when and why pedestrian traffic jams occurred, the Netherlands' Apenheul Primate Park gave tagged "monkey bags" to a percentage of its visitors.

European Study Probes RFID's Impact on Privacy Issued by the European Parliament's Scientific Technology Options Assessment committee, the report finds that the use of RFID to date has not had significant negative impacts on the privacy of individuals, though it does call for transparency.

French Jean Boutique Adopts RFID to Boost Loyalty To attract young shoppers to its stores, Gedenim is issuing RFID-enabled loyalty cards and deploying kiosks and sales terminals designed to provide personalized information and offers to cardholders.

RFID Helps Malaysian Museums Track Artifacts To help it manage its collection, the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur plans to apply passive HF tags to a million items—and the shelves on which they are stored.

Group Studies RFID's Potential to Help Speed Aircraft Turnarounds The IATA/SITA/Cambridge Turnaround Project is exploring how automatic ID technologies can be used to maximize aircraft utilization.

RFID Debuts as Hand-Washing Compliance Officer To reduce the spread of infections, a new automated hand-sanitizing system uses RFID to monitor how well health-care workers wash their hands.

Tagged Umbrellas to Provide Market Research to Merchants Philadelphia startup Dutch Umbrella provides RFID-tagged courtesy umbrellas to local businesses, and tracks those umbrellas borrowed by customers.