7.5 Micron Thick RFID Tag

YesSir writes "The EETimes is reporting that Hitachi has a breakthrough in RFID technology that they are planning to show at this years ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuits Conference). The new RFID chip is their newest mu-chip that, measuring in at 7.5 microns, is ten or more times thinner than a sheet of paper and comes complete with 128-bit identifying goodness."

Comments

RFID Scares me..

[guildsolutions]

Pretty soon we will be carrying our tin foil encrusted wallets and clothing interlaced with foil to foil the detection system of the aliens watching us.

I wonder if government will advocate tracking of people using RFID, or advocate banning the tracking of people via RFID?

Re:RFID Scares me..

[TubeSteak]

I wonder if government will advocate tracking of people using RFID, or advocate banning the tracking of people via RFID?

Can't I just leave me cell phone on all the time?

small enough?

[joe 155]

are they not already small enough; I have one in my card and its the same size as any other credit card. I alwyas like to see people pushing the realms of what is possible but haven't we already reached a situation when its already "small enough"... not to mention the fact that now they are so small I'll not know where to put the tinfoil... dam it, the tinfoil could even have RFID in it :O...

Re:small enough?

[aunticrist]

Now what was that again about a mark in the palm or the forehead and not being able to buy anything or travel anywhere, etc? Yeah. RFID. Mark o' da beast is here! woot! Now, about those horsemen...

Great...

[Anonymous Coward]

So instead of just being on our food packages. It'll be in our food.

Yummy.

Re:Great...

[JediTrainer]

LOL. Take this the next logical step. Your health insurance company parks outside your house and sets up a Pringles Can RFID scanner to see what's coming down the sewer.

Your premiums just went up because you ate too many pork rinds.

OMG! This is thin enough...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to RFID tag tinfoil hats, and you would never even know it except for the black helicopters following you.

just one word

[iplayfast]

PAPERCUTS!

Possibilities

[JustinKSU]

I wonder if McDonalds will start tracking where we go after we scarf down a Big McRFID.

Math illiteracy

[MyNymWasTaken]

ten or more times thinner

That little bit of ineptitude is nowhere in the article; so the blame passes to the submitter.

"10 times thinner / (less in any form or fashion)" is exactly like saying "300% less". It is an ridiculous statement made by a math illiterate. It is, by definition, impossible for anything to lose more than 100% of it's value.

People see the statement "3 times larger" and, because they can barely add 2+2 without an electronic calculator, they think "3 times smaller" is a valid statement.

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How do you show something you can't see?

[Anonymous Coward]

...they are planning to show at this years ISSCC... ...measuring in at 7.5 microns...

How do you show something you can't see? :-)

Stephen

That's great news!

[catdevnull]

I was worried that the older ones would be visible under my forehead.

Tracking my trackers..

[modi123]

Oh greatest news of all! With this RFID tag being so small I now have a solution for tracking all my RFID tags.. I tried to adhere two RFID tags together, but that was way too bulky. Now I can have wafer thin tags on my bulkier, older tags, and I finally know where any of my RFID tags are at any point of the day! Oh joys of joy!

Additionally, as I am thinking about this new miracle invention, I also have a way of tagging all my M&Ms and Skittles.. yeah! I will soon find out who has been eating my Skittles in my apartment.. *angry fist shaking*

Philosophy illiteracy

[Anonymous Coward]

When you come right down to it, who are any of us, really?

Re:Maybe paper, probably not

[TubeSteak]

Does anyone know what kind of microcontroller is used on the transit system tickets?

Usually the microcontroller is an abrasive female, but occassionaly it's a worn down guy.