Keiller TN
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Applied Digital Solutions' deeply weird Digital Angel, a wireless microchip device which can be planted under the skin and used for all sorts of... er... interesting applications, is to be unveiled in Florida at the end of this month. The demo, according to ADS, will combine GPS, wireless and body function monitoring...
Digital Angel is essentially a microchip device designed to be worn close to the body. It could be implanted, but initially ADS sees it as being wearable, with human implantation being at least subject to US Food and Drug Administration approval...
In the demo ADS intends to measure and transmit bio-sensor information via a "tiny antenna," along with GPS location information, and make this available on the Web.
The company has a most excellent list of potential applications for Digital Angel. It could be used be used for patient or livestock monitoring, security, warfare, law enforcement, identification or firearms safety. It could be used to keep an eye on potential kidnap victims, or family pets, or to monitor valuables.
Note that although some of these applications would work fine with just a wearable device, others really are likely to need you to stick it somewhere discreet, so the Captain Cyborg route could well be necessary. Kidnap targets, pets, soldiers being monitored to see where they are and if they're dead yet all sound like implant candidates to us.
The rest of the article at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14100.html
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"Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain that build it:
except the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psalm 127:1)
The Second Amendment rights have not kept pace with the First.
"Freedom is given to the human conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility."
(Alexander Solzhenitzyn)
[This message has been edited by Keiller TN (edited October 29, 2000).]
Digital Angel is essentially a microchip device designed to be worn close to the body. It could be implanted, but initially ADS sees it as being wearable, with human implantation being at least subject to US Food and Drug Administration approval...
In the demo ADS intends to measure and transmit bio-sensor information via a "tiny antenna," along with GPS location information, and make this available on the Web.
The company has a most excellent list of potential applications for Digital Angel. It could be used be used for patient or livestock monitoring, security, warfare, law enforcement, identification or firearms safety. It could be used to keep an eye on potential kidnap victims, or family pets, or to monitor valuables.
Note that although some of these applications would work fine with just a wearable device, others really are likely to need you to stick it somewhere discreet, so the Captain Cyborg route could well be necessary. Kidnap targets, pets, soldiers being monitored to see where they are and if they're dead yet all sound like implant candidates to us.
The rest of the article at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14100.html
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"Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain that build it:
except the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psalm 127:1)
The Second Amendment rights have not kept pace with the First.
"Freedom is given to the human conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility."
(Alexander Solzhenitzyn)
[This message has been edited by Keiller TN (edited October 29, 2000).]
