Big brother could be watching your luggage

Oh Nooooo.......The impossible happened.  Emirates Air has misplaced my Gucci and Louis Vuitton bags.  What's a fashionista to do?

Well, in future, if the fashionista has purchased luggage tags from RFID Ltd., there would be no cause for alarm.  The tags, designed to match "the colors and grains of luggage offered by Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Prada, and Louis Vuitton", include a radio-frequency ID chip that would contain the owners personal information, and which could be read at a distance by a simple hand-held scanner.  If your fancy bag has an RFID chip in it, it won't languish in lost and found for very long.

Of course there's a catch...Though the designer tags are in their final stage of production and will be available soon on RFID Ltd's Web site, don't buy the tags until the company proves it's gotten airlines to buy into its RFID system.

RFID Ltd's president, Nicholas Chavez said, "Our glamorous designer line of BagChipElite luggage tags should suit even the most discriminating of tastes." But those tags won't work if the baggage handlers don't have scanners.