I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc.
Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?
there are NFC chips in at least some ctities' metro tickets, maybe many?
i know boston and montreal both use paper, disposable tickets with chips in them
they are useful i guess, but one would think they'd have some better methods with less waste
@rustoleumlove @gerrymcgovern is RFID stuff actually e waste in that sense? I thought most of those near-field stickers were just specialized coil identifiers with most everything else on the connected system.
But I may be mixing my technologies here. I know that the "targets" that twel if you are taking a book from the library or product from a store can just be coils.
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