September 15, 2007 4:30 PM PDT
Here is a view of WineM, a prototype of an RFID-controlled wine rack that lets owners keep track of their wine collections in a unique way. Built in five months by San Francisco-based ThingM, the smart wine rack incorporates RFID tags (applied to each wine bottle), electronic readers (embedded in each wine rack slot) and LED lights to highlight bottles in their cubbies. Owners can control the rack with a Flash-based application that illuminates bottles based on vintage, grape, region or price. The company said it will start taking orders for the rack early next year for delivery in 2009. It hasn't set the price yet.
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