Tiny Antennas to Keep Tabs on U.S. Drugs
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The F.D.A. is expected to announce an agreement to put tiny radio antennas on the labels of medicine bottles to combat fraud.
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Tiny atomic clocks could be slipped into cellphones, hand-held computers and global positioning system receivers.
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced an anti-counterfeiting initiative that would provide prescription drugs with an electronic fingerprint by outfitting them with tiny chips and antennas.
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Soon you'll have the ability to pinpoint a car's or a person's location to within less than three inches using handheld devices.
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Scientists are hoping that "playing" a tiny guitar string will be able to help weigh molecules to discover more about them.
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Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.
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Wireless transmissions that travel only a few centimeters may be just the ticket for embedding cell phones with smart-card technology.
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A one-pound handheld gadget running Windows CE is enlisting for duty with police departments and the armed forces. The Seeker CDU is designed to detect trace amounts of certain chemicals used to make narcotics, explosives and such.
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WASHINGTON - Three large drug manufacturers in the United States say they plan to add radio transmitter tags to bottles of pills to prevent counterfeiting and theft.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.
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Internet radio service Mercora introduces an application that streams music libraries wirelessly. Images: Mercora's "M"
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Electronics manufacturers are designing products that are smaller and lighter, yet offering more and more gadgets that travelers feel compelled to take with them.
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Tiny computer chips used for tracking food, tickets and other items are getting even smaller. Hitachi Ltd., a Japanese electronics maker, recently showed off radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips that are just 0.002 inches by 0.002 inches and look like bits of powder. They're thin enough to be embedded in a piece of paper, company spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi said Thursday.
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BALTIMORE--Radio frequency identification may be a hot topic among tech types these days, but proponents of the technology gathered here this week are keeping their exuberance in check.
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Viagra, Oxycontin and some AIDS drugs will be among the first to carry radio chip tracking devices under a new Food and Drug Administration initiative.
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The little diagnostic test kit maker that could.
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A new $200 baby monitor is designed to resist radio interference, offering clear sound over a distance of up to 900 feet.