Staff: Hate the idea of your Walmart polyesther slacks tracking you? So do these guys.

That’s why they whipped up the RFID-Zapper. Once you’ve built yours, the choice of time and place for allowing RFID trackers will by yours. Just snuggle up to the offending tag, push the button and Zap! No more nosy RFID.

To ease parts availability and keep it cheap, the designers parted out a single use camera, the kind you pick up at 2 for the price of 1 at the drugstore.

The developers expect to have free blueprints ready shortly. The only thing holding them up is a shortage of RFID-tags. They used theirs all up.

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