Spot: HP's Hot New Tomato-Seed-Sized RFID Killer?

Courtesy of PC Magazine and writer Natali Del Conte cames this report on Spot from HP: Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a memory chip the size of a tomato seed. Dubbed the Memory Spot, it can be attached unobtrusively to any object and carry media or data. Among its many potential uses, it may rival RFID tags in carrying information. Size, speed and capacity are the big deals here: ...Spot has a 10-megabits-per-second data-transfer rate and can store up to 4Mb of data... The chip also has an integrated antenna, making it much smaller than RFID chips...