Article: Md. firm developing high-tech dog tag

The dog tag is getting a techno upgrade, and a small Rockville company is in the running to put its ramped-up version around American soldiers' necks.

InHand Electronics Inc. is one of three companies that recently won a $100,000 Army contract to design and test electronic dog tags that can store soldiers' personal and medical records. The wireless tags would let medics get that information in the battlefield and record any treatment back to the tag for later downloading in a hospital - all without touching the tag itself.

Designers said the technology exists, but it needs to work in a dog tag that is "rugged enough that you can throw it into my cup of coffee, take it out 30 minutes later, ...

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