The digital skin web

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  • 02/07/2019

    The digital skin web

    On some Swedish trains, passengers carry their e-tickets in their hands—literally. About 3,000 Swedes have opted to insert grain-of-rice-sized microchips beneath the skin between their thumbs and index fingers. The chips, which cost around $150, can hold personal details, credit-card numbers and medical records. They rely on Radio Frequency ID (RFID), a technology already used in payment cards, tickets and passports.

    Why Swedes are inserting microchips into their bodies – Bjorn Cyborg

    One of these is going to end up being sectioned as some time….waiting for the first case-report. Not often I can get two puns in a three word title.