HP’s Memory Spot Gets Ready To Shake The Industry
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed a tiny wireless data chip that can store up to 100 pages of text and could ultimately be used in a variety of consumer and commercial applications, HP said late on Sunday. Memory Spot, a technology devised by the research division of HP, is a self-contained storage device with a radio and processor that sticks to photos, documents or cards. About the same size as a shirt button but thinner, a Memory Spot can be stuck onto the corner of a family photo: Wave a reader over it, and the spot will serve a video or audio recording of the subject of the picture to a nearby computer or cell phone. Amazing technology that will help out a bunch of industries.
Developed over four years by HP Labs’ campus in Bristol, England, the chip is about the size of the head of a match and could potentially store a patient’s medical chart on a hospital band, said Howard Taub, associate director at HP Labs. The chip can transfer data at 10 megabits per second, 10 times faster than Bluetooth wireless technology, comparable to Wi-Fi rates and far faster than RFID. Also, HP has managed to store up to 4 megabits in working prototypes of the chip, far more than an RFID chip can store. HP said the chips could be embedded in paper or stuck to surfaces, and may be sold eventually as self-adhesive dots.
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