PositiveID Corporation’s RFID Glucose-Sensing Microchip Featured on Forbes.com

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PSID) announced today that its RFID glucose-sensing microchip development project was featured in an article on Forbes.com entitled “Diabetes Is Killing Our Economy,” which can be found at http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/13/kramer-obesity-nutrition-intelligent-investing-diabetes.html.

About PositiveID Corporation

PositiveID Corporation provides unique health and security identification tools to protect consumers and businesses. PositiveID operates in two main divisions: HealthID and ID Security. For more information on PositiveID, please visit www.PositiveIDCorp.com.

Statements about PositiveID’s future expectations, including the Company’s ability to develop and commercialize a glucose-sensing RFID microchip, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and PositiveID’s actual results could differ materially from expected results. These risks and uncertainties include the Company’s ability to successfully develop and commercialize the glucose-sensing microchip (the “microchip”), the market acceptance of the microchip, the Company’s and Receptors’ ability to develop a microchip, the validity, scope and enforceability of the Company’s patents and those related to the microchip, the protection afforded by the Company’s patents and those related to the microchip, the Company’s ability to complete the development phases in certain time frames, government regulations relating to the microchip, the Company’s ability to fund the continued development of the microchip, the timing and success of submission, acceptance and approval of required regulatory filings; as well as certain other risks. Additional information about these and other factors that could affect the Company’s business is set forth in the Company’s various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those set forth in the Company’s 10-K filed on February 12, 2009, under the caption “Risk Factors.” The Company undertakes no obligation to update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this statement or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.