The experimental chip, developed by the "Memory Spot" research team at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. The chips could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots.
The new chips "could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots," HP reported.
The chip has a 10 megabits-per-second data transfer rate and is 10 times faster than Bluetooth wireless technology and comparable to WiFi speeds. Storage capacity ranges from 256 kilobits to 4 megabits which enables it to store a very short video clip, several images or dozens of pages of text.
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