What's New With MEMS?

Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), tiny machines combining electrical and mechanical components and typically made on silicon are making some major headway. This has many economic developers excited about the prospect of new businesses and jobs tied to this budding technology.

Today, such machines can be combined with wireless technology to create so-called active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags or smart tags, which can not only sense, say, a movement, but also tell another machine wirelessly about it.

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