Latest Microchip implant Stories
By Susan Stanton Sarah Broadway has a history of rescuing big dogs, but while visiting a pet expo this year she was drawn to the little guys. When she got home, she found herself looking at small dog rescue groups online and when she saw the photo of Priscilla, a Chihuahua-griffon mix, she couldn't resist. After the adoption had been approved, her son Noah drove to Tallahassee, where the dog was being fostered. Priscilla had already had a rough life. She had been surrendered to the...
By Staff Reports EDEN -- An animal vaccination, heartworm check and microchip clinic will be held Saturday. Clinic hours are from 1 to 3 p.m. at Town & Country Pet Care, 7741 N.C. 14. Dogs and cats can receive rabies vaccinations for $5 and microchip implants for $30. Heartworm checks for dogs are $15. Vaccinations for distemper, kennel cough, parvo, corona, upper respiratory disease and leukemia are $20. Proceeds will go toward the Rockingham County Canine Club and Yorkshire Terrier...
By John Dorschner, The Miami Herald Jul. 9--A former executive with the holding company that controlled the troubled VeriChip of Delray Beach is suing the maker of medical identification devices for more than $2 million, claiming the firm refused to grant him stock options that he was entitled to. The suit, filed in Palm Beach County Court on Tuesday, alleges that Jerome C. Artigliere, a former chief operating officer of the holding company that controlled VeriChip, was never given options...
Digital Angel (NASDAQ: DIGA), an advanced technology company in the field of animal identification and emergency identification solutions, announced today that its Destron Fearing unit has been awarded $885,000 in contracts with the Portland, OR-based Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) technology. One award, for...
A small, unmanned vehicle makes its way down the road ahead of a military convoy. Suddenly it stops and relays a warning to the convoy commander. The presence of a deadly improvised explosive device, or IED, has been detected by sophisticated new sensor technology incorporating living olfactory cells on microchips mounted on the unmanned vehicle. The IED is safely dismantled and lives are saved.This scenario may become a reality, thanks to the work of three faculty researchers in the...
Rice original technology lets patent-holders remotely activate chipsPirated microchips -- chips stolen from legitimate factories or made from stolen blueprints -- account for billions of dollars in annual losses to chipmakers.But a series of novel techniques developed at Rice University over the past year could stop pirates by allowing chip designers to lock and remotely activate chips with a unique ID tag. When a chip is locked with the new technology, only the patent-holder can decipher the...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Hardware piracy, or making knock-off microchips based on stolen blueprints, is a burgeoning problem in the electronics industry. Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comprehensive way to head off this costly infringement: Each chip would have its own unique lock and key. The patent holder would hold the keys. The chip would securely communicate with the patent-holder to unlock itself, and it could operate only after being...
VeriChip Corporation (the "Company") (NASDAQ:CHIP), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that its VeriMed Patient Identification System has expanded to Emergency Medical Responders. The Company has equipped 27 American Medical Response (AMR) ambulances in three counties in the Atlanta metro area with Bluetooth®-enabled scanners. These ambulances are the first fleet of its kind in the country...
By TODD LEWAN CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself - until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms. The "chipping" of two workers with RFIDs - radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick - was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive data and images for police departments, a layer of...
TOKYO -- Japan is moving toward requiring owners of potentially dangerous animals, such as crocodiles and pythons, to have microchips implanted in their pets in case the animals get loose, officials said on Thursday.The move follows a recent wave of incidents around the nation in which animals such as pythons, crocodiles and giant salamanders have been found wandering loose, frequently on the streets of densely populated cities.In one notorious case, a man lost track of his pet python after...
