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Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle.
The US Food and Drug Administration has so far only approved "passive" tags for human implantation which cannot be altered once inserted and have a limited capacity and transmission range.
The FDA may eventually approve "active" devices which contain internal batteries and can be updated.