1.   A team at University College, London, produced the first clear pictures of interiors, using microchips as the specimens.

2.   Athletes and coaches will wear security badges that broadcast access codes and information as the wearer approaches security checkpoints, using microchips embedded in the plastic.

3.   -- Relationship cards, through which banks or other issuers can offer clients several products using microchips and may include some form of loyalty programs.

4.   The bumbling toymakers create the soldiers, called the Commando Elite, by using microchips designed by the military.

5.   The Swatch Beat also allows you to protect your e-mail downloads using a microchip embedded in the watch and a special mousepad.

6.   Iris Corp. has reportedly secured a contract with the junta to begin work on technical specifications for a trial run of Myanmar electronic passports using embedded microchips.