The advantage of having an unlocked GSM phone is that the phone can easily be used in other countries at a fraction of the usual charge by buying a local prepaid SIM card, the microchip that contains the telephone number and other data.
But most of the individual microchips that contained the memory were intact, and investigators wired them back together and reconstructed the last few keystrokes made by the crew.
Every instrument that attaches to one of da Vincis robotic arms contains a microchip that allows usage for only ten procedures.
The microphone contains within it a microchip that can store up to 1,500 songs.
The bird's nests can be sealed in a box with an RFID tag that contains a microchip embedded with details about the harvest.
Electronic monitors are normal pill-bottles with a special cap that contains a microchip that registers time and date of every time that the bottle is opened.
Swatch Access timepieces have a microchip that can store information and an antenna that communicates the data to scanners.
Venn-Works' 14-month-old Labnetics sells a microchip that can analyze blood and urine.
The researchers dabbed the samples onto a microchip that detects activity levels of genes.
In June, for example, a firm called Fixnetix developed a microchip that can execute trades in nanoseconds.
