February 17th, 2007 by ketyung
RFID technology is getting more popular. As we have seen before, farmers put RFID tattoo on their herds for tracking and monitoring purpose etc. Employers use it in the employee’s name badge or card for tracking them. And what’s next? Someone could just sprinkle some RFID chips on you, which they’re as tiny as dust and you’d have become trackable unnoticeably. The tiniest RFID chip, at only 0.05mm square, which is now being developed by Hitachi. As shown in the picture, the right next to a human hair, is 5 microns thick, and will have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38-digit ID number.
Hitachi plans to bring this to market within 2 to 3 years. It’d bee likely used for embedding in currency, ID cards and even gift certificates.
Via [OhGizmo]
Stumble it!
September 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
[...] We’ve learned that RFID chips are somehow pretty handy and have been extensively used in quite a number of work environments. Such as the farmers use it for tracking their herds, employers use in in their employees’ badges and a couple of medical uses such as tracking patients or used together with surgical sponges to avoid mistakes of leaving sponges accidentally inside the patients’ bodies during operations. [...]