Applied Digital Solutions
Digital Angel Press Release
The following information is taken from the recently
launched Digital Angel™ web site; the URL of which is:
http://www.digitalangel.net
Applied Digital Solutions has recently acquired the patent
rights to a new technology that we believe will
revolutionize e-business security, emergency location and
medical monitoring. That technology has been named Digital
Angel™.
ADS is actively seeking joint venture partners to develop
and market this technology. We expect to produce a prototype
of the device by the end of 2000. We believe Digital Angel™
technology, in all of its applications, has a multi-billion
marketing potential.
Basic Features of Digital Angel™
The Digital Angel™ transceiver can be implanted just under
the skin or hidden inconspicuously on or within valuable
personal belongings and priceless works of art. When
implanted within the human body, the transceiver is powered
electromechanically through the movement of muscles. It can
be activated either by the "wearer" or by a remote
monitoring facility. The device also can monitor certain
biological functions of the human body - such as heart rate
- and send a distress signal to a monitoring facility when
it detects a medical emergency.
Limitations of Competing Technologies
While a number of other tracking and monitoring technologies
have been patented and marketed in the past, they are all
unsuitable for the widespread tracking, recovery and
identification of people due to a variety of limitations,
including unwieldy size, maintenance requirements,
insufficient or inconvenient power-supply and activation
difficulties. For the first time in the history of location
and monitoring technology, Digital Angel™ overcomes these
limitations.
Potential Uses of Digital Angel™
Although still in the early developmental stage, we believe
Digital Angel™ could have an array of beneficial potential
applications: provide a tamper-proof means of locating and
identifying individuals for e-business and e-commerce
security; locate individuals, including children, who are
lost or who have been abducted; monitor the medical
conditions of at-risk patients; track and locate military,
diplomatic and other essential government personnel;
determine the location or the authenticity of valuable
property; track the whereabouts of wilderness sports
enthusiasts (mountain climbers, hikers, skiers, etc.).