ll medical and drug records can be kept securely available. Audio photo: Attach a chip to the prints of photographs and add music, commentary or ambient sound to enhance the enjoyment of viewing photos. Digital postcards: Send a traditional holiday postcard to family and friends with a chip containing digital pictures of a vacation, plus sounds and even video clips. Document notes: A Memory Spot chip attached to a paper document can include a history of all the corrections and additions made to the text, as well as voice notes and graphical images. Perfect photocopies: A Memory Spot chip attached to a cover sheet eliminates the need to copy the original document. Just read the perfect digital version into the photocopier and the result will be sharp output every time, no matter how many copies are needed, and avoiding any possibility of the originals jamming in the feeder. Security passes: Add a chip to an identity card or security pass for the best of both worlds - a handy card with secure, relevant digital information included. Anticounterfeit tags: Counterfeit drugs are a significant problem globally. Memory Spot chips can contain secure information about the manufacture and quality of pharmaceuticals. When added to a drug container, this can prove their authenticity. A similar process could be used to verify high-value engineering and aviation components. Network Software - Microdevices and Microdevice Networks - The Software of the Very Small Like the Hitachi Mu chip, the Memory Spot never gained mass-market traction, but both products were precursors of things to come. Sometimes ideas just get to market too early but that does not mean that these devices were not important or no longer have relevance. Both the Memory Spot (HP Labs) and Mu chip (Hitachi) products were passive, generating power inductively from the interrogating device. As stated in the press release the Memory Spot was a CMOS device with an intended storage capacity of between 256 kilobits and 4 megabits and a claimed transfer rate of 10 meg