Microsoft's latest model home boasts info mirrors, RFID bull
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Those magnets passed out by neighborhood pizza joints could someday provide much more than mere logos and phone numbers. The latest remake of a concept home on Microsoft's Redmond campus includes a magnetic bulletin board that recognizes radio frequency tags layered into coupons and other promotional objects. After sensing a magnet from a particular pizza shop, for example, the bulletin board taps into the Internet to retrieve and display that shop's current specials.