For these ‘cyborgs’, keys are so yesterday


  • TECH
  • Monday, 07 Sep 2015

Keyless entry: A filepic of an implantable technology proponent demonstrating how one of the doors to his home can be unlocked just by passing his hand past a sensor which reads the signal from a RFID chip implanted in each of his hands. Oesterlund is one of the small but growing number of people around the world who has a grain-sized NFC chip embedded in him.

BERLIN: Punching in security codes to deactivate the alarm at his store became a thing of the past for Jowan Oesterlund when he implanted a chip into his hand about 18 months ago. 

“When I walk into my studio, I just wave my hand at the alarm, and the alarm turns off,” the tattoo artist said. 

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