Tag: MICROCHIP

Reuters Canada reports that the NFL has spoken with a German manufacturer about placing microchips inside footballs in order to prevent blown calls by officials. The tight-lipped NFL, naturally, would not confirm or deny these reports, but Cairos Technologies sales director Mario Hanus told Reuters, "Yes, we are talking. There is a demand in American Football." The demand is getting touchdown, ...

Often, getting a patient to remember to take his or her medication is the most difficult part about treating an illness. Last month, we told you about new pill-bottle caps that glow and beep as a reminder. And now, some researchers at the University of Florida have developed pills that snitch on patients who don't swallow them down. According to CNET News, the pills are printed with a nontoxic ink ...

Dog owners in Britain might soon have extra incentive to keep their canines on a short leash. According to an Associated Press report posted on Huffington Post, government officials want a microchip installed in every dog in the U.K. In addition, the owners of the dogs would be required to purchase insurance on the animals. The argument being that cheap microchips, costing between $15 and $52 ...

Currently, microchips are made with silicon, but IBM is looking to the future and working on replacing the traditional computing material with DNA. IBM doesn't plan on harvesting this DNA from people, of course. It has instead demonstrated a way to use artificial nano-structures that replicate the composition of DNA. IBM believes the repetitive design of DNA is a perfect match for fabricating ...

STMicroelectronics announced it has created a microchip with the ability to identify influenza viruses, including bird flu. The VereFlu Chip, built in partnership with Veredus Laboratories, can scan and detect multiple human strains of influenza within hours (current diagnostic testing can take days to weeks). According to the World Health Organization, there have been 236 human deaths linked ...

We knew it was only a matter of time before the government started trying to track us by implanting computer chips in our bodies. And where do you start highly suspicious, Big Brother-esque projects like this? The Pentagon and our Armed forces, of course. Scarily enough, we're not talking about some conspiracy theory, or some black ops experiment -- this is for real, and the Pentagon has already ...