microchip

NBC News celebrated the prospect of “millions” of people getting a microchip implanted in their hand as a likely future outcome. Mark Of The Beast. ...

Patrick Kramer is chief executive officer of Digiwell, a Hamburg startup in what aficionados call body hacking—digital technology inserted into people. ...

Wisconsin-based technology company Three Square Market famous for microchipping willing employees plans to debut a microchip with GPS technology and voice recognition that will be powered by body heat....

This might sound like an Orwellian nightmare to some but in Sweden it is a welcome reality for a growing number who favours convenience over concerns of potential personal data violations. The small microchip implants were first used in 2015 in Sweden -- initially confidentially -- and several other...

The microchips are the size of a grain of rice and usually inserted in the webbing between the thumb and forefinger using a needle like in body piercing....

Wisconsin company Three Square Market  is about to become the first in the U.S. to offer microchip implants to its employees. Yes, you read that right....

The UAE telecoms giant Etisalat unveiled new human-injectable microchips, which store all your credit card, ID and business card data, for the first time in the Middle East....

The US Navy has held meetings to discuss highly controversial microchip technology which could one day allow the government to track the movements of every single citizen in the country....

Tim Shank, the president of the Minneapolis futurist group TwinCities+, has a digital implant installed in his hand that can communicate electronically with his front door and tell it to unlock itself. ...

Oesterlund is one of a growing number of people around the world who has a grain-sized NFC (Near Field Communications) chip embedded in him. Human Microchip implant manufacturer Dangerous Things said that there are now around 10,000 "cyborgs" -- or humans with digital chips in them -- across the...

The government on Tuesday authorized establishment of a committee that will examine ways to eliminate cash from the Israeli economy – the better to prevent citizens from cheating on their taxes. The committee will be chaired by Harel Locker, director of the Prime Minister's Office....

The device, called a Magic Band, includes a radio-frequency-identification chip. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts recently got permission from the Federal Communications Commission to try out high-tech wristbands, according to Disney's application. ...

A man I will call “Andrew,” has paid Grafstra $30 to have a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip injected into the space between his thumb and pointer finger, and as Graafstra describes Lamaze-type breathing methods, Andrew looks remarkably untroubled, in spite of the intimidatingly high-gauge syringe sitting on the...

Two blind men can see again for the first time in more than two decades after an implant of a 3mm 'bionic eye' microchip. Doctors believe in time Chris James will be able to recognise faces, once his brain learns to see again. ...

A hi-tech chip allows a phone to 'see through' walls, wood and plastics - and through fabrics such as clothing. The team's research involves tapping into an unused range in the electromagnetic spectrum. But the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum, one of the wavelength ranges that falls between...

Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and out. The unprecedented accuracy of the Broadcom 4752 chip results from the sheer breadth of sensors from which it can process information. It...

The futuristic idea that microchips could be implanted under a patient's skin to control the release of drugs has taken another step forward. The work is described as the first in-human testing of a wirelessly controlled drug delivery microchip. The technology at its core has been in development for...

The RFID technology - which stands for radio frequency identification and requires an installed chip that can be read by an electronic reader - has been used by various industries for several years to organise product storage and tally shipments. Now hotels are using the tech to monitor the...