The Bar Code In Your Booty

June, 2004

Applied Digital Solutions: This firm makes radio-frequency identification capsules (RFIDs) that can be affixed to products or implanted in animals or humans for inventory control or identification. The size of a grain of rice, each capsule contains a microchip with a serial number. ADS hopes RFIDs will replace credit cards, medical bracelets and even keys. It has implanted them in only 30 people in the U.S. but has sold 6,000 for human use worldwide.Baggage: McCarran International in Las Vegas t...