chipping the dead
rfid isn’t just for princes and kids anymore. maybe it’s good for cadavers too.
UC Considers Using Barcodes for Cadavers [ap via abc news, feb 4, 2005]Officials are also considering putting barcodes or radio frequency devices in cadavers that could be read by someone walking past the body with a handheld device. Radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags already are used by cars passing through automated toll plazas. UC officials said that they are still working out the details but that any body parts that became separated from the corpse would probably be tagged, too.