The Beeb has a story up about a computer chip, being developed by Hewlett-Packard, which is the size of a grain of rice!
A chip the size of a grain of rice that can store 100 pages of text and swaps data via wireless has been developed by Hewlett-Packard.Ok, so it won't be available for two years but this can only be a good thing. The way technology progresses these days the memory of the chip will be much larger by the time it actually hits the market.
The tiny chip was small enough to embed in almost any object, said HP.
The chip could be used to ensure drugs have not been counterfeited, on patient wristbands in hospitals or to add sounds or video to postcards, said HP.
But it warned that the device was at least two years away from being a finished product. - BBC News
The chip itself has some advantages - and some disadvantages. Items can swap and share data with each other - items that couldn't swap data in the past. Just imagine something like Minority Report, going into a shop and the clothes communicating with your clothes to see what your taste is and offer reccomendations based on that. However, this potentially opens it up to abuse by advertisers. Although magazines and billboards, TV's, radio, and the internet all do that already and we put up with it. Also, if these chips can be imbedded in almost anything than what's to stop our nations becoming even more of a Big Brother state than we have today?
The Sensintrovert, however, speculates what happened to a chip the size of a spec that was once announced by Malaysia.
Whatever the case, things like this are just mind boggling.
Tiny wireless memory chip debuts - BBC News.
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