Hey look, I just stole an interesting post from the new Wired blog, 'Gear Factor'

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4749/

http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/gadgets/index.blog?entry_id=1254062

'The new process will enable the mass production of very cheap integrated circuitry in paper and cardboard and can be expected to have massive consequences in manufacturing, the future of RFID and the blurring of the line between printed objects and the virtual world.'

It's not so much that they're doing it – a lot of guys are into electroconductive ink apps now – it's that they are doing it and so entirely willing to frame what they're doing in this visionary way.

'The future of RFID' and 'massive blurring of the virtual world.' Yes folks, if they really start mass-printing arphids on paper wrappers for under a penny a pop, well, even a stick of gum isn't safe.

Gear Factor