RFID 'smart dog tags'

Within 10 years the U.S. Army plans to replace all stamped metal "dog tags" with RFID-enabled smart dog tagsthat store health records of each soldier. Medics in the field will beable to use a PDA-size scanner to read each soldier's medical history,and even update it with whatever their treatment is. Already some13,000 troops are carrying larger prototypes of the new tags.

Source: technet.pnl.govAdded: 4 January 2007