The Mark of the Beast
GPS implant for offenders?
02/28/2016 08:42
A British Columbia community hopes to take the extraordinary measure of injecting high-risk and prolific offenders with GPS tracking devices in order to curb a crime problem.
City council in Williams Lake has voted unanimously in favour of a motion to support tracking criminals' movements 24 hours...
Are You Ready For An Implanted NFC Airline Boarding Pass?
01/16/2016 09:29
Are you ready for an implanted NFC airline boarding pass just underneath your skin? What if you could board your flight, check into an airport lounge or check into your hotel all without having any paperwork or physical ID? To some this prospect sounds scary and rife with many privacy pitfalls....
Will the 'Mark of the Beast' Play Music in Your Head?
12/16/2015 09:15
By 2040, author Stephen Witt envisions a world where people listen to music via implanted SmartChips "invoked via spoken-word commands," the Wall Street Journal reports in its article, "Is the Future of Music a Chip in Your Brain?"
While the article by Witt, author of How Music Got Free, is...
Would you wear a microchip implant?
11/08/2015 19:28
One aspect of technology that has caught the Digital Catapult’s attention recently is biohacking; applying technology to manage and solve issues within the human body.
It may sound futuristic, but examples of biohacking can already be seen around the world. An interesting case can be found in...
Meet London's living synths who are implanting microchips into their own bodies
10/30/2015 19:05
It’s a rainy Tuesday night in West Hampstead and Katie Collins needs to call her boyfriend. Looking up from her laptop screen, she glances at her Android phone lying on the bed, raises her hand and sweeps it in the mobile’s direction. It starts dialling immediately and, before her boyfriend...
A surprising number of adults are open to brain chip implants
09/24/2015 20:56
If you could implant a microchip in your head to get continuous access to the Internet and all things digital, would you? One in four Americans would, according to new data from communications and strategy firm Vrge.
It seems like an idea straight out of science fiction that usually completely...
Kaspersky Lab chips humans at IFA 2015
09/08/2015 20:10
Moscow-based global security firm Kaspersky Lab used IFA 2015 to vividly demonstrate a world where microchips are implanted into humans, connecting people to their devices, before highlighting the security and privacy issues that could arise.
At its IFA press conference, a Kaspersky representative...
Would YOU be microchipped? Kaspersky implants chip in man's hand
09/03/2015 22:19
Volunteer has 2mm microchip injected into his hand at an event in Berlin
He could soon use it to unlock his phone and certain doors, for example
Experts believe the technology could become the norm once the chips can be used for more actions and can be encrypted
One expert believes there is...
The Pros and Cons of Inserting a Smart Microchip Into Your Own Body
07/04/2015 21:27
Last week, a teenagr from Somerset inserted a smart microchip into his own hand. Fifteen-year-old Byron Wake ordered the NXT chip and insertion kit from the States, injected it under his skin and, once the procedure was done, paired the chip to his phone, allowing him to authorise actions – like...
Teenager injects microchip into his hand
06/28/2015 17:35
Fifteen-year-old Byron Wake may be the youngest person in the world to have an electronic chip implanted under his skin, a technological 'advance' we may all be using one day.
Want to get into your office, share contact details, or go through passport control? All may be done with the touch of a...
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