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HP Provides Alternate Technology to RFID
NerdForceMaster writes "HP has unveiled a new alternative to standard RFID technology, a chip the size of a tomato seed that has 500KB of memory and can communicate at 10mbps. Lets hope this one is commercially availible soon." We beg forgiveness; dupe etc etc.
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Poor subscribers - they PAY to see dupes before the rest of us.
A tomato seed is, as astute readers of the last embodiment of this story will remember, almost exactly the same size as a grain of rice.
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Presumably HP is now using the "use food as units of measurement and the hungry masses will lap up your products" theory of mass marketing.
Coming soon:
- a laptop the size of a pizza calzone!
- a new PDA the size of a 8-oz packet of California sun-dried raisins!
- ink cartridges the size of a small tin of caviar (and more expensive!)
- a secure USB drive the size of a sun-dried tomato!
My blog
until you can't find the locator...
(or you could just tidy up)
- a mail server the size of a can of SPAM
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Maybe this means that they intend people to eat them so they can be more readily tracked. I will never trust another tomato again. Bob, you have lost my faith!
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
You'd think the marketing folks could sell the work of these fine engineers using proper engineering terms.
If the unit is 0.1 attoparsecs wide, they need to say it's 0.1 attoparsecs.
If it's half a nanoacre, they need to say it's half a nanoacre.
Karma: Chameleon (comes and goes)
If it helps you, 500 KB per tomato seed is exactly equal to 1E-5 library of Congress per coconut.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
$ units --verbose
1990 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 1 tomato seed
You want: mm
1 tomato seed = 2.5 mm
1 tomato seed = (1 / 0.4) mm
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I have a great lost item locator. It's called a wife. Have you tried this approach?
At least they don't describe it's memory capacity as "as much as a can of tuna" or it's speed as "just as fast as a jackrabbit being chased by a hungry mountain lion". It's nice to know the people that write these press releases have a high opinion of us.
You are welcome on my lawn.
1 tomato seed in exactly 0.00000001 size of texases
thank God the internet isn't a human right.