HP's "memory spot" chip
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The "memory spot," as Hewlett-Packard's research laboratory is calling it, is probably about two to five years from being sold on the market.
You'd be able to put it on a photo to carry a voice recording, stick it on passports so officials can examine images of travelers' fingerprints and iris patterns or add it to soldiers' dog tags so doctors can view their full medical records.
This will blow away the capabilities currently offered by RFID. But HP isn't even sure it is going to run with the program. More here in from Mercury News colleague Nicole Wong.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/1599
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really do not see that much of innovation, what you have up here is marketing twist to a product which has been around, you may want to research companies such as TI, Atmel, ST-Micro, Nokia, and Philips all have similar products they are called as contact less smart card, or NFC, Near Field Communications. These products have been around for last 10years, they are being investigated apps such as E-passport, currency, secure ID, location aware systems (same as what HP is pitching it as). Majorities do have processor on board, no battery required, and have the range of few inches. So what I do not understand is what this hype all about, by the way all coat from $.35 cents to $1.50, All I want to share this not invented by HP.
rk on July 18, 2006 2:22 PMComment link
Yes, a lot of marketing went in this, from HPs side. There was a story about this chip in just about every major publication, on the same day. We'll try to follow this, and see what happens.
Matt Marshall on July 18, 2006 2:44 PMComment link
