Bangalore-based Farheen tells us how embedded microchip can bring about a huge paradigm shift in our day-to- day life. Read more about these wondrous innovations, in the weekly column, exclusively in
Different Truths.

For all the people who are working in offices and find it difficult to carry your ID cards, paying for the food, and other such similar stuff. This is also for all those people who are forgetful. Wait for a second, you can get away from such cumbersome tasks that are a good news.

With the help of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, you can pay for the food you ordered
at the cafeteria and you can also swipe into the office. All this by merely waiving out your hand.
How can you do so must be you’re your question? It’s simple, you need to get a rice-shaped microchip
(radio frequency ID) implanted into your skin.

Watch this video to understand more about this microchip implant:

https://youtu.be/Li24OLky9hk
Reading this you must be wondering who will want to get the microchip implanted? On August 1st, one of the Wisconsin-based companies, Three Square Market will witness its 50 out of 80 employees
volunteering for getting the microchip implanted between their index finger and thumb within seconds.
The Swedish company, Biohax International and Three Square Market have collaborated for this unique
program in the United States.

Yes, many of you must be thinking whether this microchip is safe and can be removed when one doesn’t
want it. Yes, this microchip is safe and it can be removed easily.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved this microchip and it can be removed when you
don’t want to use.

Let’s wait to hear who all will get chipped and what will be the repercussions.

How about not getting lost with the help of a guiding system embedded in your body? Electronic engineer and biohacker Brian McEvoy has designed the first internal compass. The ‘Southpaw’ works by affixing a miniature compass inside a silicon coat, within a rounded Titanium shell, to be implanted under the skin. An ultra-thin whisker protrudes, which gets activated when the user faces north, to lightly brush an alert on the underside of the skin. This program is in progress. Will wait to hear about this soon.

Another breakthrough is pioneered by Rich Lee that is the use of magnets. With one embedded in each
ear he can listen to music through them, via a wire coil he wore around his neck, that converts sound into
electromagnetic fields, creating the first ‘internal headphones’.

Watch this video to know more about the internal headphones:

Retina implants are one of the incredible innovations. It helps visually challenged people to detect light
and dark. It is used to treat a rare type of blindness called retinitis pigmentosa. The artificial retina is
approved for those who are over 25 years.

Electronic tattoos, which are ultra-thin are located on the human body users, can control mobile devices.
This brain behind the electronic tattoos is Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. The user can touch, squeeze or pull them resulting in intuitively controlling mobile devices, such as a music player or can light up the indicators. SkinMarks is the name given to electronic tattoos.

Watch this video to see how SkinMarks works:

After reading this article, you must be thinking that a few years ago technology was experienced using a
device. A few years later, technology was on the devices that we can wear and the term given for such
devices is “wearable devices”. Now, the time has arrived when people will get technology in some form or
the other implanted into their skin.

To predict good or bad about such implants without having to research about them would not be fair. We
will have to wait and watch to get more information. Let’s watch out for more.

©Farheen Viquas

Photos and videos sourced by the author from the internet.

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Farheen Viquas

Farheen Viquas is a Senior Technical Editor/Writer working in Bangalore, India. She has worked as a Technical Writer/Editor, Mentor/Coach, Language Consultant, Information Tester, English Trainer, and Transcriber. When not at work, she loves to cook, read, write poetry and prose, listen to music, bake cakes, fish keeping, and embroider. She is also a stained-glass enthusiast.