[LINK] Expert advise sought please...

[Adam Todd]

At 10:13 17/01/2008, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>...esp from Geoff R.
>
>I'm thinking RFID here rather than barcodes, but their ID code would 
>also need to be human readable, just in case a reader is not available.
>
>This is for my Nepal project and I have doubts about the lifespan of 
>barcodes in the working environment.

Touch Memory perhaps?  Although the "human readible" is an issue 
regardless.  You might as well print a metal plate and stick it to 
the device with all the info that was required to accompany the battery.

Trying to make a technology product a human readible solution will 
never work :)  I've tried for years!