Thursday, January 07, 2010

Samsung OLED identity card animates your creepy, disembodied head (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/samsung-oled-identity-card-animates-your-creepy-disembodied-hea/

For better or worse, it looks like RFID-ified identification is here to stay. Just about the coolest threat to our civil liberties we've seen this week, Samsung Mobile Display's Specimen Display Card Prototype is a pretty bog-standard ID -- until you bring it within range of an ISO 14443 RFID card reader, at which point the OLED display springs to life, summoning a 360 degree closeup of the card holder's head.Looks like it just got a little harder to change your identity, no? Peep the video for yourself after the break.

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