Tag: cyborg

Subcutane subsistence

A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin, and has attracted scorn from some fundamentalist Christians, who believe that VeriChip is the fabled “mark of the beast” of biblical lore. Satan will someday force people to “receive a mark” on their hands or foreheads in order to buy or sell.

classic future shock level problem. sign me up.

the body as beacon of locality

ElectAura-Net provides both broadband wireless(-like) networks and a meter-accuracy positioning system for indoor use. It is a kind of “intrabody communication” system that uses electric fields as transmission media, and the human body and floor as an Ethernet cable. In this system, a “communication-cell” (carpet size) can be shrunk down to one meter or less, and simultaneous access by many users can be realized. Ordinary intrabody communication systems cannot achieve long-distance communication between components such as body-worn devices and the floor.

computer, locate commander worf.