The following information is taken from the recently launched Digital Angelª web site; the URL of which is: http://www.digitalangel.net/ Applied Digital Solutions has recently acquired the patent rights to a new technology that we believe will revolutionize e-business security, emergency location and medical monitoring. That technology has been named Digital Angelª. ADS is actively seeking joint venture partners to develop and market this technology. We expect to produce a prototype of the device by the end of 2000. We believe Digital Angelª technology, in all of its applications, has a multi-billion marketing potential. Basic Features of Digital Angelª The Digital Angelª transceiver can be implanted just under the skin or hidden inconspicuously on or within valuable personal belongings and priceless works of art. When implanted within the human body, the transceiver is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles. It can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a remote monitoring facility. The device also can monitor certain biological functions of the human body - such as heart rate - and send a distress signal to a monitoring facility when it detects a medical emergency. Limitations of Competing Technologies While a number of other tracking and monitoring technologies have been patented and marketed in the past, they are all unsuitable for the widespread tracking, recovery and identification of people due to a variety of limitations, including unwieldy size, maintenance requirements, insufficient or inconvenient power-supply and activation difficulties. For the first time in the history of location and monitoring technology, Digital Angelª overcomes these limitations. Potential Uses of Digital Angelª Although still in the early developmental stage, we believe Digital Angelª could have an array of beneficial potential applications: provide a tamper-proof means of locating and identifying individuals for e-business and e-commerce security; locate individuals, including children, who are lost or who have been abducted; monitor the medical conditions of at-risk patients; track and locate military, diplomatic and other essential government personnel; determine the location or the authenticity of valuable property; track the whereabouts of wilderness sports enthusiasts (mountain climbers, hikers, skiers, etc.). End Of File