what dose this Chip do in this Book

[anthony.tony]

Hello I have been buying in Astronomy books from The States through a bookshop these little Chips have been stuck one in each book stuck in The Pages - I have six books and six chips -- Tony

[BeanerSA]

They're RFID security stickers, to stop books being stolen from the shop.

EDIT Linky http://www.explainthatstuff.com/rfid.html

[jenchris]

Surveillance chips.
They deploy a camera when you first open them and have built in microphones.
Try to keep chatter down to a minimum when you are near the book and for goodness sake, find the camera.

[rally]

Its probably an RFID tag used more for identifying that product for identification as part of the checkout process
Think of it as a wireless barcode, but its more specific - it usually it identifies that particular book as opposed to just its title.
Its just a unique ID number, the computer stores the details of the book and associates that to the unique ID.

[jenchris]

Spoilsports.

[ZeroID]

Shhhh Jennifer, they are trying to allay his suspicions. And for Gawds sake keep your tinfoil hat on !!

[anthony.tony]

Thank's for the replies now I know what the chip can Do.reguard's Tony