Technology That Touches Human Skin- Microchip

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Microchip: One of the Recent Advancement in Medical Technology

In near future the technology will be a part of our skin literally. A human microchip implant is typically an determining and analyzing integrated circuit device or RFID transponder encased in silicate glass and implanted in the body of a human being. This type of subdermal implant usually contains an exclusive ID number that can be linked to information contained in an external database, such as personal establishment and testimony, law enforcement, medical history, medications, allergies, and contact data. The symbols have been there for a moment. Phones went from being restrained to your wall to fitting in your back pocket. Computers went from desks to laps. Headphones went from over the ear to inside the ear. If there’s a trend in technology, it is this: Go small to more minute and even smaller still. Even smaller than that. Devices may start dissipating altogether. In fact, in the very near future, because of microchipping, our technology will literally be part of our skin. It starts with the microchip.

Phase History

In the year 1998 a British Scientist named Kevin Warwick have carried out the first experiment on RFID implantation. His implant was used to open doors, switch on lights, and cause verbal output within a building. In the London Science Museum the implant has been removed after nine years. Later in the 20th Centuries another British Scientist named Mark Gasson had an advanced glass capsule RFID device surgically implanted into his left hand. Gasson's team mentioned in details how a computer virus could wirelessly infect his implant and then be transmitted on to other systems. His team reasoned the implanted technology the separation between man and machine can become theoretical because the technology can be anticipated by the human as being a part of their body. Because of this advancement in our understanding of what constitutes our body and its boundaries he became credited as being the first human affected by a computer virus. He has no plans to remove his implant. For humans microchips will make the life more convenient and easy. In the year 2015, the Swedish Incubator began implanting the microchip its employees not to track the productivity but to give them the power to operate printers and more. The minute, grain-of-rice-size radio frequency identification chip opens doors with a wave of your hand in front of a chip reader. 

Medical Purposes

In the year 2004, the VeriChip implanted a device and reader that were classified as the second class. This is done by FDA General controls with special controls. In the same year the FDA also published as a draft guidance describing the special controls required to market such devices. In the field of medical science researches have been examined and they indicate that there are potential benefits and risks for incorporating the device in the medical field. Destron Fearing, is a subsidiary of Digital Angel, initially developed the technology for the VeriChip. Some Christian activists, including Mark Dice, the author of a book titled The Resistance Manifesto, make a link between the Positive ID and the Biblical Mark of the Beast, prophesied to be a future requirement for buying and selling, and a cornerstone of the Book of Revelation. Gary Wohlscheid, president of These Last Days Ministries, has argued that "Out of all the technologies with potential to be the mark of the beast, VeriChip has got the best possibility right now". In the year 2007 June, the American Medical Association mentioned that "implantable radio frequency identification (RFID) devices may help to identify patients, thereby improving the safety and efficiency of patient care, and may be used to enable secure access to patient clinical information", but down the line in the same year, news documents linking similar devices to cancer caused in laboratory animals had a devastating impact on the company's stock price and sales. Later in the year 2010,the company by then called POSITIVEID removed the product from the market due to low sales. Other than the RFID chip there are many other technologies that is being used. Grindhouse Wetware, a biohacking start-up in Pittsburgh, is experimenting with powered implants: The RFID chip is mechanized by the instruments it interacts with, like the card scanner on your office door, while the implants are mechanized internally by a battery. It’s cofounder Tim Cannon inserted a monitor slightly smaller than a stack of credit cards into his forearm that would read his temperature and, through Bluetooth, transmit that information to his Android. The monitor, called Circadia, can be worn to regulate a Bluetooth thermostat or to whoop an ambulance if Cannon’s temperature drops too immediately. Ryan O’’Shea mentions that that “This was to prove that we could develop and implant a subdermal device in the body for non-medical purposes,” for Grindhouse Wetware.