Mike Temporale
07-18-2006, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2006/060717a.html' target='_blank'>http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2006/060717a.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"HP today announced that its researchers have developed a miniature wireless data chip that could provide broad access to digital content in the physical world. With no equal in terms of its combination of size, memory capacity and data access speed, the tiny chip could be stuck on or embedded in almost any object and make available information and content now found mostly on electronic devices or the Internet. (...)The experimental chip, developed by the “Memory Spot” research team at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. The chips could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Temporale-20060718-HPWiFiRice.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />It's going to be hard for device manufacturers to ignore this. The popularity of WiFi continues to grow and HP takes a massive step forward in reducing the footprint required for WiFi to be embedded in a device. I don't want to hear anyone say that they couldn't find room for the chip now! ;) I wonder what kind of reception this will get with a built-in antenna?