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Article: Md. firm developing high-tech dog tag
- Article from:
- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2004
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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, ...