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Hi-Tech Body Implants and the Biohacker Movement (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: Body modification has been growing in popularity. It's pretty common to see people with multiple piercings or stretched earlobes (called gauging). With this wider acceptance has risen a specific subset of Biohacking that seeks to add technology to your body through implants and other augmentation. The commonly available tech right now includes the addition of a magnet in your fingertip, or an RFID chip in your hand to unlock doors and start your car. Cameron Coward looked into this movement — called Grinding — to ask what it's like to live with tech implants, and where the future will take us.
TFA goes on about putting magnets and RFID tags inside people as the state of the art. I'm sorry, something we do to our pets doesn't really get a 'hacking' imprimatur, much less 'high tech'.
Wake me up when somebody open sources the way to access human memory with a digital chip ('Microsofts in William Gibson's parlance'). Or making some drug or device that actually enhances the human condition. And no, splitting a tongue in half so you can move both muscles at the same time is not an 'enhancement'.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
These things are the same in precisely the same way that Goths and the Catholic Church are.
Turn on a huge electromagnet to rip all that shit off.
Is there a quicker way to lower your job prospects? How many CEOs have tattoos and metal shit attached to their heads?
Because a keyfob won't fit into hipster skinny jeans.
Yawn. Bio-electrical implants have been stable for decades, and there's really been no improvement over a few analog filters and a jack that sticks out of your head to connect the electronics to htat was used in the earliest designs. The "digital" modern versions with the embedded transceivers have a fraction of the battery life, they mistake digitization for actual signal quality, they *wildly* undersample audio to transmit power levels instead of preserving the mixed frequency original signals with all those time critical zero crossings for "plosive" sounds, they cost ridiculously more, and they're far more vulnerable to failures that force re-implantation, usually in the other ear.
I want implants like Chaz Kato.
Biohackers...hmm. Sounds like a low-budget horror film.
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where I wouldn't dare venture with such things as implanted RFID chips.
Want to use your implanted RFID chip to access your bank via ATM? What's to stop criminals from cutting off your finger and racing to the nearest ATM before your finger and the chip become non-operational? Probably the PIN you also use to authenticate, but still.......
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
That's HIGH beam tech.
I'm sure the tattoo / piercing shops are all over this, we have seen people that have had "horns" implanted in their scalp.
But I'm sorry, when I need a joint implant or some other othapeadic thing in my body to function, I'm not interested in some home-brew design executed on some 3D printer "god knows where".
RFID implants aside, just about all the other ideas scare the hell out of me. There *will* be a down side, and when your implant goes south, do you plan on taking some random tattoo joint to court to pay for the loss of whatever it is you lose?
These people do not carry malpractice insurence, and it's unlikly they could get it.
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Now it's "bio-hacks". How much longer before you get your iPhone embedded in your head? Before you get the Google mind extension app?
This is how the Borg get their start.
The NFC-based payment system I can activate by just resting my hand on the point-of-sale terminal.
Too many posers thinking they are Adam Jensen. People's stupiduty grows exponentially with each iteration (generation). Goddamn hippsters
I've read a few articles talking about the side effects of the finger magnets. Most people can't leave them in, as the "sensations" never stop. People seem to have problems sleeping since there is almost always some detectable fields nearby, especially the types that get these implants have all sorts of devices so your fingers might "tingle" all night. I would assume that eventually your brain would adjust, just like your not constantly aware of the clothing touching your skin...but that might take months.
I suppose you might design some kind of shielding glove so you can turn it off and on in a way. Perhaps if you had a small enough magnet implanted? Oh, also not noted, is that since this is NOT a "surgical procedure" you legally get no anesthetic, just like when you get a piercing. But since you can buy pure powdered benzocaine off Amazon...
The magnetic fingertip idea is neat, and it can't really be seen either. RFID chips sound too complex and can be broken after implant. That "Circadia" implant in the pic looks nasty. Other than the magnets and the RFID chips, there doesn't seem to be much to this "grinder" movement yet.
When I see a pierced nose, I wonder if it squirts when you have a cold. When I see some guy with stretched earlobes, I just envision using the lobes as places to hang clothing. Or maybe hams.
I think the only body enhancement that I do see that evokes anything but wondering why someone would be so stupid is breast implants. For them I feel sorry for them that they didn't think they were good enough without them.
I wonder why people feel the need to cut themselves off from excellent careers by doing that crap to themselves. I had long hair when growing up. Went to a crew cut after I finished college.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
RFID tags and subdermal magnets are mere parlor tricks, not worth the risk and pain of opening up my skin. Now, once those perfect-vision-forever implantable lenses get approved, I'll be all about that.
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It's pretty common to see people with multiple piercings or stretched earlobes (called gauging).
Just as an FYI, these are never attractive. I'm down with whatever people want to do with their bodies, but I've never understood the appeal of gauges.
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making "blue screen of death" literal since 2015?