Want to gain entry to your office, get on a
bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all
getting used to swiping a card to do all
these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-
tech office block in Sweden, they are trying
a different approach - a chip under the
skin.
Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the
tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his
hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does
the same thing to get into the office space he
rents, and he can also wave his hand to
operate the photocopier.
That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-
frequency identification) chip, about the size
of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon,
others among the 700 people expected to
occupy the complex will also be offered the
chance to be chipped. Along with access to
doors and photocopiers, they're promised
further services in the longer run, including
the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a
hand.
On the day of the building's official opening,
the developer's chief executive was, himself,
chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was
to get to grips with this technology, I had to
bite the bullet - and get chipped too.
The whole process is being organised by a
Swedish bio-hacking group which was profiled
by my colleague Jane Wakefield recently. One
of its members, a rather fearsome looking
tattooist, inserted my chip.
First, he massaged the skin between my thumb
and index finger and rubbed in some
disinfectant. The he told me to take a deep
breath while he inserted the chip. There was a
moment of pain - not much worse than any
injection - and then he stuck a plaster over my
hand.
Before trying my chip out, I wanted to know
more about the thinking behind it. Hannes
Sjoblad, whose electronic business card is on
his own chip and can be accessed with a swipe
of a smartphone, has the title chief disruption
officer at the development. I asked him
whether people really wanted to get this
intimate with technology.
"We already interact with technology all the
time," he told me. "Today it's a bit messy - we
need pin codes and passwords. Wouldn't it be
easy to just touch with your hand? That's really
intuitive."
When I tested my chip, I found that it was not
all that intuitive - I had to twist my hand into
an unnatural position to make the photocopier
work. And while some of the people around
the building were looking forward to being
chipped, others were distinctly dubious.
"Absolutely not," said one young man when I
asked him if he'd sign up. An older woman was
more positive about the potential of the
technology but saw little point in being
chipped just to get through a door.
But Hannes Sjoblad says he and the Swedish
Biohacking Group have another objective -
preparing us all for the day when others want
to chip us. "We want to be able to understand
this technology before big corporates and big
government come to us and say everyone
should get chipped - the tax authority chip,
the Google or Facebook chip." Then, he says,
we'll all be able to question the way the
technology is implemented from a position of
much greater knowledge.
I've returned to Britain with a slightly sore
hand - and a chip still under my skin which
has my contact details on it. Not that useful,
but no doubt more sophisticated chips will
soon replace wearable technology like fitness
bands or payment devices, and we will get
used to being augmented. All sorts of things
are possible - whether it becomes culturally
acceptable to insert technology beneath our
skin is another matter.

Source : http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

Nothing person no go see o

simplemach:
Nothing person no go see o

imagine using chips to make out with your wife?

espn:
imagine using chips to make out with your wife?

hahaaha broooos, dem no talk dat one o.