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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!ux1.lbl.gov!mikec
  2. From: mikec@ux1.lbl.gov (Mike Chin)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.electronics
  4. Subject: miniature transponders
  5. Date: 5 Jan 1993 02:02:43 GMT
  6. Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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  9. Message-ID: <1iaq83INNs2a@overload.lbl.gov>
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  11. Keywords: Smithsonian, pooches
  12.  
  13. A recent Smithsonian had an article about the usage of "rice-sized"
  14. transponders embedded into retail products for customer marketing info.
  15. Are these similiar to the devices that were being subcutaneously 
  16. implanted into dogs/cats for ID purposes? Who sells these things & how
  17. do they work?
  18.  
  19. mike chin
  20. MJChin@lbl.gov
  21.