Chips for dinner: Edible RFID tags describe your food
Found on New Scientist on Thursday, 09 June 2011
A student at the Royal College of Art in London, Hannes Harms, has come up with a design for an edible RFID chip, part of a system he calls NutriSmart.
The idea is that it could send nutritional data and ingredients for people who have allergies, or calorie-counting for those on diets, or maybe even telling your fridge when the food has gone off. It could even be used to market organic food, with a chip holding data about the origin of that tuna steak you just bought.
I'm glad there are no other, more serious problems to work on. Really, I don't want to eat a bunch of RFID chips when people with allergies can simply look at the package and read that there are nuts inside.