It may not be fashionable to visit a library these days as much (if at all!) as some of us may have done in our childhoods. But if there are RFID applications around like this there, visiting the library could catch on again.
It's probably only a precursor for even wackier ideas to follow that will show RFID intersecting with everyone's lives in a fun, non-threatening way, all allied to the use of an RFID tag/chip that we'll probably come to take for granted as much as we now do the bar code.
I'm grateful to Gizmodo (via RFID News) for this example of an RFID-enabled robotic chair which works when you swipe your RFID library card in front of the chair's sensor. The chair - or even chair(s) - will then follow you, Pied-Piper-like - around the library.
The idea, from the Dutch designer Jelte van Geest's for Openbare Bibliotheek Eindhoven is not the first and certainly won't be the last cool RFID application to emerge - but it's probably one of the best. And if you want one of these at home, it's probably only a matter of time before you can get one from Ikea!