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Case Study: Unique Micro Design

As of 2003, all thoroughbreds born in Australia required an RFID microchip to be inserted near its neck to assist with identification. As a consequence, equipment, techniques and systems needed to be developed to read these microchips. The traditional device to read the microchips was too large and obtrusive for...

Tags: Microchip, Semiconductors, Hardware

Case studies

Inkjet printers start cranking out microchips

Inkjet printers start cranking out body partsSaw this show where they culture your cells. Then they put in solution and spray into jelly like matrix to form 3d body parts and organs. Since these are live cells they later grow blood vessels, etc. This is still...

Tags: Dr Dij, Inkjet Printers, microchip

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

Is the VeriChip Friend or Foe?

VeriChip is a subsidiary of Applied Digital and provides state-of-the-art RFID microchip solutions that identify, locate, and protect people, their assets, and their environments. From the world's first and only FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID microchip to the only active RFID tag with patented skin-sensing capabilities, VeriChip technology ensures the safety and...

Tags: Microchip, VeriChip, RFID, Semiconductors, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware

White papers 2006-05-27

PIC Development System (zip)

The ultimate Microchip PIC Development system. This fully integrated system includes: Micro-IDE - a Windows-based Integrated Development Environment, Serial Loader, Terminal, complete online documentation, Project Examples. Support for Microchip MPASM, C18 C Compiler and CCS C Compiler tookits.

Tags: Microchip, Semiconductors, Development Tools, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2006-02-23

Coming soon ... a wireless-enabled soccer ball

I got a kick out a story that I read today about a microchip being placed in a soccer ball to help referees fine-tune their calls. File this in the "technology is getting more pervasive every day" category. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Microchip, Kick, Semiconductors, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Wireless, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2005-10-25

In memorium: Microchip Pioneer Jack Kilby Dies at 81

In 1958, Jack Kilby had this really crazy idea. In his first year working for Texas Instruments, he cobbled together a bunch of parts and decided to build an integrated circuit the size of a fingernail. That little circuit quickly brought an end to the switches and tubes that had...

Tags: Microchip, Story, Semiconductors, Productivity, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2005-06-21

Photos: A bike helmet built for road hazards

From outside, the Smart Helmet looks normal. But inside, it has a microchip that controls everything from blinkers to voice commands.

Tags: hazard, helmet, microchip, photograph, voice

Image galleries 2006-08-30

Programming Windows XP for Embedded IR Applications

This paper details the tools, supporting technologies and procedures for the development of infrared applications on Windows XP based PC. A Windows XP WinXP application that interfaces with an embedded system via IrCOMM is included in the appendices of this application note. This source code demonstrates the use of the...

Tags: Microchip, Programming, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2004-05-28

What's hiding on your microchip?

Where’s Waldo? He might be hiding on a chip! Michael Davidson, a cell biology researcher, has discovered more than 300 chips with unusual micrographic imagery. The artwork generally is benign for the chip's real job, but there are exceptions.We realize that the link to the photo gallery doesn't work within...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, chip

Discussion threads 2005-10-12

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Where's Waldo? You'll never guess...

Just in case you missed the lead News.com story in today's IT News Digest newsletter, you gotta check this out: "What's hiding on your microchip?"  Unfortunately, the link to the photo gallery within the story doesn't work.  Don't worry, I got your back: "Photos: Inside these chips, art awaits." According...

Tags: Photograph, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2005-10-12

Realizing the Promise of RFID: Insights From Early Adopters and the Future Potential

Radio Frequency IDentification RFID refers to a set of technologies that use radio waves to identify and transmit information from tagged objects. While there are several mechanisms to identify objects using RFID1, an important approach is to store a serial number that identifies a product, along with other product information,...

Tags: Antenna, RFID, EAI, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software

White papers 2005-07-01

USB Memory start up app.

Hi,I have a little bit over 1500 USB pens that we bought from China, it came with a small application that auto start, all of them are infected with a trojan Virus, we tried formatting, deleting the partition etc., and nothing, the startup application it's still intact, it almost feels...

Tags: BIOS, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, nbentley@...

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

Sci-Fi writers Homeland Security = Project Sigma

Here's a scary oneStephen Baxter presented the scariest scenario I've come across in a while in his novel "Transcendent". The pick your terrorist organisation of choice smuggle a small nuke say a few kilotons onto a suborbital tourist ship (Like the program a certain British mogul is building in...

Tags: npkeith, EMP, homeland security

Discussion threads 2007-06-04

Lowry Labeling - It All Starts With a Smart Label

The process of building smart labels begins with an inlay, made up of an RFID Radio Frequency IDentification microchip attached to an antenna then mounted to a substrate. The inlay is combined with blank or preprinted label stock and adhesive layers, and is then typically converted to rolls for encoding...

Tags: Substrate, Pallet, Inlay, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2005-09-08

Windows Vista Beta 2 Trusted Platform Module Services Step by Step Guide

Trusted Platform Module TPM Services is a new feature set in Microsoft Windows Vista used to administer the TPM Security Hardware in your computer. TPM Services architecture provides the infrastructure for hardware-based security by providing access to and assuring application-level sharing of the TPM. A TPM is a microchip designed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Trusted Platform Module Services, Trusted Platform Module Services Architecture, Trusted Platform Module, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

White papers

Use of RFID Technology in Libraries: A New Approach to Circulation, Tracking, Inventorying, and Security of Library Materials

RFID Radio Frequency IDentification allows an item, for example a library book, to be tracked and communicated with by radio waves. This technology is similar in concept to a cell phone. RFID is a broad term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are...

Tags: Radio, Antenna, Radio Wave, Reader, RFID, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Marketing

White papers 2005-10-05

Photos: Get your (sneaker's) motor running

It is cool, but is it fair, healthy or a gimmick?I have to say this idea is way cool, but I was just thinking about whether or not it will be banned from sports events, if it proves durableand helps alot. Suppose hypotheticly that, wearing a pair of these, I...

Tags: peace@..., health and technology, sport, computer cheats, hardware, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-04-25

Open Source

blog rootFreedom with out Fear Open SourceThe Subject  is Software. First take the wheel  should we still pay the caveman. Or did the wheel become part of many things. How far would the wheel have got  if  Everyone with thought had to first call the caveman to see if his...

Tags: Biotechnology, Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, cohaver@..., software, open source

Discussion threads 2005-06-24

An Application Framework for Efficient, Reliable and Secure Access to Memory Spot

Memory Spot is a microchip developed by HP Labs at Bristol. Compared to Radio Frequency IDentification RFID devices, Smart Cards and other Near-Field Communication NFC devices, this chip provides much larger storage capacity, faster data transfer rate, and smaller physical dimensions. The chip is normally passive and is energized by...

Tags: Application Framework, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Access, Radio Frequency, Radio, Memory, Chip, Memory Spot, Radio Frequency Channel, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Marketing, Networking

White papers 2007-04-18

How did the personal computer change the world?

Hello, I am writing an essay for a scholarship submission and i need ideas. Basically the prompt is asking what I think is the most important invention in the past 50 years. So of course me being a computer geek, I choose the personal computer. I assume that the most...

Tags: Desktops, Games, computer, PC

Discussion threads 2005-07-27