Wednesday, February 28, 2007

"chips! Chips!! CHIPS!! CHIPS!!!"



VeriChip Corporation had their IPO recently under the ticker symbol CHIP, and so far they are off to a bad start.
There seems to be a cloud of negative press around them for some reason. VeriChip is the company that brought you such innovative products as the implantable RFID chip.
Might be fun to keep an eye on.

clone a VeriChip for like 20 bux: http://cq.cx/vchdiy.pl

Thursday, February 15, 2007

pure powder



consumer electronics giant Hitachi has created a RFID "powder" that is 0.05 x 0.05 mm. you can see in the picture how they compare to a strand of hair. these little chips have a 128-bit ROM, which can store a 38-digit number. and, most likely, this number can be read with some sort of RFID scanner. probably not from too far away, who knows... the original source is in Japanese anyway.

a tag of this size could be used to track anything basically. they made a version of this before which was 9times larger (0.4 x 0.4 mm) called Mu-chips. probably good for paper, printer ink, currency, or even a food-additive. LOL

anyways, it seems that the government of Malaysia has bought the rights to it. i'm sure they'll find some fun use for it.

oh yea, the Mu-chips work @ 2.5GHz if you want to go hunting. dunno what the new ones work @.

sources:
http://www.spychips.com/blog/2007/02/hitachis_weaponized_rfid_powde.html
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/02/hitachi-develops-rfid-powder/
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/mu-chip/

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Microsoft employee missing @ sea

Jim Gray works for microsoft and was half of the inventors of Terraserver, an early satellite mapping software. according to my source, he also did major work on ATM machine & flight reservation software.


source: http://www.nbc11.com/news/10888165/detail.html