Digital Angel Corporation One of Eight Companies Nationwide Invited to Present At McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson Company, Annual R&D Meeting.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2001

Meeting, to be held March 16th, 2001 has e-business theme

Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSX) a leader in information technology and solutions, announced today that its Digital Angel Corporation subsidiary has been invited to present at the annual McNeil Consumer Healthcare R&D meeting to be held in Philadelphia on March 16th, 2001.

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of nonprescription pain relievers including complete lines of TYLENOL(R) Acetaminophen and MOTRIN(R) Ibuprofen products for adults and children, as well as lactose-intolerance products, is a Johnson & Johnson Company (NYSE: JNJ). Approximately 140 individuals from all levels of research and development will attend the meeting. Joining Digital Angel Corporation for its presentation will be Dr. Dale Hutchins, Executive Vice President and COO of Medical Advisory Systems (AMEX: DOC).

Digital Angel was one of eight companies from the U.S. invited to the R&D meeting. Invitees were selected based upon their ability to bring groundbreaking technology to bear on Life Sciences issues. Digital Angel Corporation will spend the majority of the presentation time discussing the Digital Angel device, bio-data collection abilities and its relationship to Physical/Biological Life Sciences. The information technology functionality of the Digital Angel Delivery System and its relationship to data delivery, particularly bio-data, will also be discussed.

Mercedes Walton, President and COO of Applied Digital Solutions, commented on the invitation: "We are very pleased to be participating in McNeil Consumer Healthcare's annual R&D meeting. This is a very exciting opportunity to highlight the Life Sciences capabilities of Digital Angel before a very targeted group of researchers. We have always felt the bio-sensing capabilities of the Digital Angel product were one of the basic differentiators to potential competitors and the key to tapping markets that are unavailable to other technologies."

Ms. Walton continued: "We view invitations such as this, especially following the 'Best of Show: Client Services' award at the recent Internet World Wireless Show, as an endorsement of our direction."

About McNeil Consumer Healthcare

McNeil Consumer Healthcare is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of nonprescription pain relievers. Its nonprescription pharmaceuticals include complete lines of TYLENOL(R) Acetaminophen and MOTRIN(R) Ibuprofen products for adults and children, as well as lactose-intolerance products.

About Digital Angel

In December of 1999, Applied Digital Solutions announced that it had acquired the patent rights to a miniature digital transceiver -- which it has named Digital Angel. Digital Angel represents the first-ever operational combination of advanced sensor technology and Web-enabled wireless telecommunications linked to GPS systems. The company believes this technology will enable it to tap into a multi-billion dollar marketplace with a number of applications that will prove to be extremely popular. Potential applications include: medical and location monitoring for at-risk patients; emergency location of lost or missing children; finding lost or missing household pets; managing livestock and other farm-related animals; pinpointing the location of valuable stolen property; and managing the commodity supply chain. Digital Angel data is transmitted wirelessly, on a real time basis, to an Internet-integrated ground station and made available on a Web-enabled desktop, laptop or wireless device. A new Digital Angel wristband device was unveiled at Cyberposium at Harvard Business School on February 10, 2001 and at Internet World Wireless 2001, February 20-23, 2001, where it took the honor of Best in Show, Client Services. For more information about Digital Angel, visit www.digitalangel.net.

About Applied Digital Solutions, Inc.

Applied Digital Solutions is an information technology and solutions company operating on the I3 Services Platform. Through our core business units of Applications, Services and Advanced Wireless, Applied Digital Solutions offers Intelligent Integrated Information Services. Our products and services allow the collection, organization, analysis, warehousing and dissemination of information for a wide variety of end users including commercial operations, governments, and consumers. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.adsx.com.

Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, 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. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and the Company's actual results could differ materially from expected results. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.