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.
Read the full story: New Scientists
That Image is just a regular RFID Tag – so no worries you wouldn’t have to swallow these.
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Tags: RFID, TAGS, Stomch, Science, Radio
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Link | February 14th, 2007 at 6:45 pm