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Computer Getting Under Your Skin?
Techtree News Staff, Jan 09, 2006 1701 hrs ISTAfter cyber hugs... its time now for computer chip implants that prevent people from forgetting computer passwords...
After cyber hugs... its time now for computer chip implants that promise to prevent people from forgetting computer passwords, et al.
Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old Vancouver-based entrepreneur has apparently shown the way... With a wave of his hand, the man opens his front door; with another wave, he logs onto his computer. Tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) computer chips implanted under the skin of Graafstra's left hand, make this feat possible...
So what is RFID? RFID computer chips reportedly cost around $2, and are capable of interacting with a device installed in computers, dubbed "reader". The chips get activated when they come within 3 inches of the "reader," which scans the data on them. The "reader" device is available for about $50.
Graafstra said in an interview that RFID is surely for him, because he does not want to be without access to the things he needs to get access to. He said that in a worst-case scenario, if he is in the alley naked, he would still want to be able to get into his house.
Graafstra said that the chip can't be felt, and that it does not impede or hurt him in any way; a view endorsed by his girlfriend. Graafstra also said that the chip cannot be stolen or lost, and that it can always be removed from a person's body.
Mikey Sklar, a 28-year-old Brooklyn resident, who had a RFID chip injected into his hand by a Los Angeles surgeon, said that the chip gives a person some sort of power of "Abracadabra" - of making doors open and passwords enter by just a wave of the hand. Sklar is even developing a fabric "shield," to protect these chips from being read by strangers.
Wikipedia - the online encyclopaedia, describes an RFID tag as a small object which can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person; which contains silicon chips and antennas to enable receiving and responding to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver.
And it seems the idea of implanting such tags into human beings is not altogether new...
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... And Now Cyber Hugging
Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old Vancouver-based entrepreneur has apparently shown the way... With a wave of his hand, the man opens his front door; with another wave, he logs onto his computer. Tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) computer chips implanted under the skin of Graafstra's left hand, make this feat possible...
So what is RFID? RFID computer chips reportedly cost around $2, and are capable of interacting with a device installed in computers, dubbed "reader". The chips get activated when they come within 3 inches of the "reader," which scans the data on them. The "reader" device is available for about $50.
Graafstra said in an interview that RFID is surely for him, because he does not want to be without access to the things he needs to get access to. He said that in a worst-case scenario, if he is in the alley naked, he would still want to be able to get into his house.
Graafstra said that the chip can't be felt, and that it does not impede or hurt him in any way; a view endorsed by his girlfriend. Graafstra also said that the chip cannot be stolen or lost, and that it can always be removed from a person's body.
Mikey Sklar, a 28-year-old Brooklyn resident, who had a RFID chip injected into his hand by a Los Angeles surgeon, said that the chip gives a person some sort of power of "Abracadabra" - of making doors open and passwords enter by just a wave of the hand. Sklar is even developing a fabric "shield," to protect these chips from being read by strangers.
Wikipedia - the online encyclopaedia, describes an RFID tag as a small object which can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person; which contains silicon chips and antennas to enable receiving and responding to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver.
And it seems the idea of implanting such tags into human beings is not altogether new...
Related News:
... And Now Cyber Hugging
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