Photos: HP's stick-on memory spot

Photos: HP’s stick-on memory spot

By Bill Detwiler July 16, 2006, 2:01 PM PDT billdetwiler

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Memory Spot, a technology devised by the research division of Hewlett-Packard,rnis a self-contained storage device with a radio and processor that sticksrnto photos, documents or cards. The device is about the same size as arnshirt button, but thinner. Here is a memory spot in a card.

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A Memory Spot on a card, and the photo that is preserved on the actual device.

A Memory Spot on a hospital wristband. The spot could contain a patient’s medical record. Because data can be rewritten, a doctor orrnnurse could update the records on a visit.

Howard Taub at HP Labs shows off the data contained in the Memory Spot on a wristband.

A Twiggy-like fashion shot featuring a memory spot surrounded by pencils.

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