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HP Announces Tiny Wireless Memory Chip
Hewlett-Packard researchers have developed a memory chip with wireless networking capabilities that is roughly the same size as a grain of rice, the company said Monday.
Prototypes of the Memory Spot chip developed by HP Labs contain 256 kilobits to 4 megabits of memory and can transfer data wirelessly at speeds up to 10Mbps. There are eight bits in a byte. This amount of storage allows the chips to hold a short video clip, digital pictures or "dozens of pages" of text, HP said, adding that the chips do not require a battery.
Memory Spot chips get their power using a technique called inductive coupling, which allows power to be transferred from one component to another through a shared electromagnetic field. In the case of Memory Spot, this power is supplied by the device that is used to read and write data on the chip.
Data stored on Memory Spot chips could be accessed using a variety of devices, such as specially equipped cell phones or PDAs, making them suitable for a range of applications, such as adhesive attachments applied to a paper document or printed photograph, HP said.
Thanks for the refresher there HP.
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check out my webpage, it's on a server embeded under my skin and shares power with my pacemaker.
/.ing of something so close to your heart? ;o)
Do you really want to risk the
Don't take the above poster too seriously. He doesn't.
Steve Jobs: Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the smallest iPod ever, the iPod Flea.
Rhapsody in Numbers
All you need to increase the range is to come up with some sort of pringles can for your memory reader.
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"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
"There are eight bits in a byte." Really?? When I started programming, you could select the byte size. Now we're forced into 8 bit bytes. What a horrible loss of freedom. I blame Canada. And terrorists. And global warming.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Didn't you see the article summary? It's not coincidence that the chip is "the size of a grain of rice". You know that last batch of chicken fried rice you had? Yes, it has already begun... my theory is that the chip logs information on your stomach contents, then when it gets flushed back to the sewage treatment plant it updates your data -- the government increased the levels of fat and other unhealthy materials in the most eaten foods, that's what Americans are growing fatter and fatter every year. Their plan? To make Americans so fat, they cannot resist when the government comes in with force. Thankfully I only eat paint chips and mountain dew, so I'm unaffected. Ssshhh, I hear the black helicopters coming, I must make my escape.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
All those stamps in my passport were getting annoying. Maybe they can put one of these in my passport, maybe when they get those RFID things working, so that I can just download where I've traveled. It'd be handy and I can't see anything that could go wrong.
- Tash
Vrooommm...
"roughly the same size as a grain of rice"
Would be interesting if you could raid these thing, need more storage just dump a handful in to the pot next to you computer.
Would be hell to try to find one that had gone faulty but I expect you could just turn it off.
My only concern would be the non-technical collage room mate who drunk and looking for food at 2 am try to cook you rice and then eat it. Brings a whole new side to data recovery.
No useful text here whatsoever.
when they start mass producing these in China next to the rice paddies