Hitachi Develops RFID Powder

February 16th, 2007

Via: Pink Tentacle:

RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new “powder” type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet — which they aim to begin marketing in 2 to 3 years.

By relying on semiconductor miniaturization technology and using electron beams to write data on the chip substrates, Hitachi was able to create RFID chips 64 times smaller than their currently available 0.4 x 0.4 mm mu-chips. Like mu-chips, which have been used as an anti-counterfeit measure in admission tickets, the new chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38-digit ID number.

The new chips are also 9 times smaller than the prototype chips Hitachi unveiled last year, which measure 0.15 x 0.15 mm.

At 5 microns thick, the RFID chips can more easily be embedded in sheets of paper, meaning they can be used in paper currency, gift certificates and identification. But since existing tags are already small enough to embed in paper, it leads one to wonder what new applications the developers have in mind.

Research Credit: Dermot

7 Responses to “Hitachi Develops RFID Powder”

  1. DS says:

    16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six. (hint: Google “recommendation 666”)

  2. compelling says:

    the new videos and pictures posted at http://www.bikesummer.org/ look eerily familiar to the firefighters hoisting the us flag over the ruins of the wtc. looks like the rand corp may have helped facilitate 9/11 as well. yet another smoking gun of bushco complicity?

  3. David says:

    It seems the public is, quite understandibly, rejecting this technology:

    http://news.com.com/2102-11746_3-6158701.html?tag=st.util.print

    I wonder how They’ll force people to submit to forced implantation; here’s an idea–

    Osama Bin Laden is killed; however, his ghost is possessing people by the millions, causing the possessed to attack and murder their closest relatives, as we can see by this exclusive footage obtained only by ABC.

    According to experts, the only way for you to avoid being possessed is receive an RFID implantation, which will monitor your mental state and alert authorities as soon as you show any sign of being possessed by the terror mastermind, who, unnamed sources tell us, was given the secrets to eternal existence as a malevolent spirit by Satan himself, whom he consulted with extensively before his death. The FBI and the CIA made vigorous attempts to get God to intervene on behalf of humanity, but, sadly, they failed in their efforts.

    Doctors and psychiatrists have classified the possession a disease, which they call OBL Syndrome, and are working with several unnamed pharmaceutical companies to come up with a cure for this dreaded mental infection….

  4. fallout11 says:

    “One Generation Is All They Need”
    One day we will all happily be implanted with microchips, and our every move will be monitored. The technology exists; the only barrier is society’s resistance to the loss of privacy.
    http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3696.cfm

  5. weary says:

    You can’t even tell whether you’re being implanted. It can be done through an ordinary syringe or drip just like the chips planted by vets in pet cats and dogs to tag them and keep track of them. I don’t like the idea of being someone’s pet though.

  6. weary says:

    P.S: Talking of microchips, there is other equally intriguing technological research underway in Britain to develop a “bee sized survaillance aircraft”. Better beware of the bees and flies out in the lawn and on the walls of rooms??? That’s impossible. How can one keep a watch on every damned insect?

    Find this at:

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Boffins-causing-a-buzz-with-beesized-aircraft/2007/02/01/1169919427072.html

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