X-ray of the RFID and coil inside a US passport

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From tha intarwebs, “Starting in early 2006, the U.S. Department of State will begin issuing passports with 64-kilobyte RFID (radio frequency identification) chips that will contain the name, nationality, gender, date of birth, and place of birth of the passport holder, as well as a digitized photograph of that person.”

Strangely, if you wrap your passport in a handtowel and hit it with a brick a few times, your chip “must have been broken somehow, I dunno…”