Posted by axxxr
A radio chip the size of a grain of rice that holds up to half a megabyte of video has been developed at Hewlett Packard's research labs in the UK.
The chip, called a Memory Spot, is small enough to be attached to a postcard or a photograph and could be used to append video, audio or hundreds of pages of text to all sorts of everyday objects.
Details of the chip were revealed at an event held in London on Monday. A Memory Spot can be read by a specialised device or an appropriately modified cellphone or PDA. It does not require a battery as it draws power from the reading device's radio field. source
Posted by leeboy13
wow! thats amazing...... i used to work in a microchip factory... the smallest ours were was 4mm x 4mm.... this is nuts... i'd hate to be teh guys QA'ing those badboys!
Tidy tho
Posted by IRFCA_WDG-3A
This's straight out of Mission:Impossible - 3!!!
Posted by max_wedge
Imagine when they can store a gigabyte at that size. And still operate from radio field power
You could make "stick on" memory that you just stick on the outside of your phone, which then streams the 1GB of music!
Posted by aminator
can store up to 4meg not half meg read it on RSS feed from google on the phone
Posted by lovewalrus
Weren't memory dots used by spies during the cold war? Seem to remember watchin a program on how the Yanks put them under stamps and sent coded messages home on postcards and letters!
Posted by voda_jon
tis funny about the amount coz HP are sayin it stores 512kb of info at the moment but could hold upto 1Gb within the next 12mths...
taken from both the bbc website and HP's own press release.
Posted by Residentevil
Now that is pretty cool. Imagine the great storage size that could make possible down the road.