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A wireless chip the size of a grain of rice that can store up to 100 pages of text including sound and image and is capable of exchanging information, has been developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP).

The chip could be used to add audio and video postcards, or to ensure that medicines have not been forged, and a multitude of potential uses.

But HP said the mechanism will still take two years to be released.

The chip is between 2 and 4 mm when the existing version can contain up to 512 kilobytes of information.

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HP said it is very possible that the amount memory chip can store the increase in future versions.

Data can be sent or received at speeds of 10 megabits per second, which is much faster than is possible today with other short-range radio.

"This really connects the digital world with the physical world," said Howard Taub, a director of HP Labs.

"Digital information is attached to the physical object it is connected," he said.

And because the chips are tiny size, would be very easy to embed as documents are printed, or attached to any surface.

HP believes that once it starts to be produced for sale, market price could be a dollar.