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Edible RFID Tags

Posted February 12, 2007 2:09 PM

From Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog:

What did you have for lunch? The latest brainwave, from Kodak, is to use RFID Tags to probe a person's digestive system. RFID tags are tiny radio chips that resonate with a single echo when hit with a radio trigger. Kodak's digestible tags are harmless and intentionally fragile. The tags would be covered with soft gelatin that takes a while to dissolve in the stomach. After swallowing a tag a patient need only sit next to a radio source and receiver. That Image is just a regular RFID Tag - so no worries you wouldn't have to swallow these.

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02/13/2007 2:43 AM

But which kind of image, or information, is possible to get out from the stomach with only a RFID tag?

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02/13/2007 11:47 AM

Digestible coating and the chip is all corners, looks like it will partially dissolve then get stuck somewhere like your appendix and you will need to have it removed surgically.

The guys selling the things and Doctors benefit, no consumer benefit, and you get the dubious benefit of having another one of the things tracking your every move.

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