RFID: Move Over for Your Small But Mighty Competition

Yesterday, HP shone the ol’ passive memory chip reader onto its forthcoming Memory Spot chip, its answer to the RFID tag. The Memory Spot is pretty amazing. It’s very tiny, having an antenna built right into its wee package. It can hold 4 megabits of data and has a 10 Mbps data transfer rate. HP sees a future in which these slivery chips are in and on everything, from products that will come with catalogs of other products built into them to medicine bottles that’ll lecture you about contraindications, to greeting and business cards that will have audio and video built into them. HP sees PDAs and phones eventually being turned into Memory Spot readers.

It’ll be interesting to see how this technology shakes out and if we’ll end up in a drawn out standards battle between this tech and conventional RFID.