SmartMetric, Inc. Is Planning to Launch Direct to the Public a Plug and Play Portable Electronic Medical Records Device That Can Store Medical Records Including Images and X-Rays That Can Be Carried on Your Keyring and Connects to Any PC USB Anywhere in the World

BAY HARBOR, FL--(Marketwire - Dec 17, 2012) - SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) ("SmartMetric"), developer of "Chip & Swipe"™ Credit, Health and Identity Biometric Activated and safeguarded memory products, such as the SmartMetric, Inc. Biometric fingerprint activated MedicalKeyring (www.medicalkeyring.com) that is soon to be released in the United States.

The company has decided to launch its first consumer product in the USA, this plug and play, Biometric device that is able to hold a person's complete medical records including x-rays, all types of medical imaging including mammograms and medical video records.

Development of this product has been undertaken by the company's engineers in Israel and California with support from the company's development team in Argentina. SmartMetric is completing its packaging for both retail and direct sales distribution. Other Biometric locked/unlocked portable information storage products will be released soon after the release of the SmartMetric MedicalKeyring.

"Given the life saving ability that will come from a person being able to hand over their medical records while in, for instance, the Emergency Room," said the Company President & CEO, Ms. Chaya Hendrick. "There will be significant demand for this first release of what will be more products to follow, built on the SmartMetric's developed and proprietary Biometric technology."

About SmartMetric

The SmartMetric, Biometric Card Computer provides powerful computing with large memory capacity in a revolutionary size that has taken more than 10 years of research and development. Using the latest in sub micro technology electronics, the company has achieved a level of miniaturization that allows it to release a solution of portable computing power that, combined with SmartMetric's biometric fingerprint in-card scanning technology, is so revolutionary it will change the way business is done and information is handled across a broad range of industries. For further information please go to the company's website: www.smartmetric.com

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