Now You Can Start Your Car Via A Microchip Surgically Implanted Into Your Hand
A British inventor has designed and implanted a microchip that can start his car just by putting his hand on his steering wheel.
The chip, which has been surgically implanted into the flesh between his thumb and forefinger, uses existing RFID and NFC technologies to send a short-range signal to those systems it’s paired with. As well as having retro-fitted his BMW Z4 to start when he puts his hand on the wheel, Steven Northam has also changed his home and office locks to open for the chip.
While some of us will inevitably argue that this is technology for technology’s sake, Northam believes it will be commonplace in 20 years. The advantages, he says, are that as long as your hand hasn’t gone missing you’ll be able to access your home and/or office. There are no keys or cards to lose, break or fail. On the other hand, if the chip stops working, it’s going to be a lot more difficult to sort that problem out.
It will cost between £230 and £260 to have a chip implanted now that Northam’s company BioTeq has teamed up with a consultant anaesthetist to ensure the procedure is carried out ‘to a medical standard’. He’s hoping that other surgical experts across the country will agree to offer the implant as well.
Changing your locks is a little more expensive, with £300 the quoted price for a new home or office entry system, per door. Complete offices including employee chips cost from £5000, and one business is already making it a reality for its buildings and six employees. Northam hasn’t said how much the Z4’s alterations cost.
Would you go for something like this if it meant a new, totally button- and key-free start for your car, or should we really stop at the current push-button keyless systems?
Via: The Telegraph
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sees guy with no hand
“these damn criminals, sorry about your car mate”.
So borrowing or even renting a car would no longer be possible? Unless you had the severed hand of the owner.
A: “Can I borrow your car?”
B: “Sure!. Here, take my hand.”
That’s a serious problem because carsharing is getting more and more popular in the future.
So the future of cars is:
No buttons
No switches
No pedals
No gear levers
No speakers
No mirrors
No steering
No driver
And now no key.
Whats next? No windows, seats, dash, design… or humans?
No cars?……..
Following Apples way
No cars is the future
Read in winy voice
Because….”the environment is more important then your transportation. Walking is healthy and being vegan is good because meat is murder. Be accepting or expect me to shame you on my tumbler”
From Gender 52
Or… Or. Or get a Disklok.
#cheekydisklok #smartdiskolk #moneysavingdislok #isthisenoughhashtags? #idontusetwitter #lying #pranked #gfsdgfndgaisdojpigdfojpagjpiafdigfdpioagjpoadfgjkafdjglkafdjga
maybe we can use the chip implant to unlock Disklol
“On the other hand, if the chip stops working…”
Yeees, very good!
I pass, I’d rather start my car using a screwdriver
I already can
As much as I like new technologies, this is one of them that goes way too far. Also, who says this system is secure? We already know that credit cards can easily be hacked with the use of a phone. This uses the same system, so one only needs a phone that has NFC and he can enter your house and drive your car with no problems…
And I’d rather have no computers or chips in my body. If I’d ever get a system like this I’d install them in some gloves and wear these whenever I go driving
So in the article it says it sends a short range signal to the systems that is is paired with, what happens if you want to sell your car? Must you pay to get the chip surgically removed and pay again to get another chip placed again for your new car? If you do a swop for another car will you swop chips as well?
Keep yours for the rest of the house,and let him go through the pain of installing new chips in his body and the car
The process of planting the chip into a hand seems painful and gross.
From the pain aspect it’s like doing a piercing and many people do that just for looks. The chip is implanted in the skin between thumb and the index finger and that’s a part where you don’t have too many nerves, so it’s even a bit less painful than the common piercing spots.
A work colleague of a friend of mine sells these chips here in germany and has a few piercing studios, who know how to do it properly and it costs only around 100€. If it’s done by the right professional i wouldn’t have any fear of something going wrong :)
This has been around for quite a while.
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