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Hitachi develop world’s smallest RFID chip


February 17th, 2007 by ketyung

Hitachi develop world's smallest RFID chip
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]

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  1. Say no for the implant of RFID chip, as it may cause tumors!- by Gadget, shop online blog of TechChee.com Says:

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