A computer science student from Durlach in Germany has worked out a way to store a tune on the radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags now attached to many consumer goods. To put a musical jingle onto a typical tag's 1-kilobyte memory, Florian Wesch used the compressed music format employed by the Commodore 64 home computer (a popular model in the 1980's). When the tag is scanned at the checkout, it would send the tune to be played by the tag reader.
I don't get it. The RFID readers already have the capability to play the tune and this is like a hack, or this is something he's come up with a prototype for an he's proposing to market?
What's the point? Play music with every scan. I'm annoyed by the damn confirmation beeps.