This can't be good.

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Digital Angel unveiled
Human-tracking subdermal implant technology makes debut

Posted: November 1, 2000
1:00 a.m. Eastern




© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

A NASDAQ-traded company has finally unveiled its long-touted and highly controversial "Digital Angel" -- a subdermal microchip implant designed not merely for keeping tabs on pets, but for widespread, worldwide use in tracking human beings.
The high-tech device, engineered by Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (http://www.adsx.com/adsx/cda/flash/ads_ctii_teaser.htm) had its debut Monday before an overflow crowd of more than 300 invited guests at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
The audience included U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta, who addressed the crowd, as well as other government officials, potential joint-venture/licensing partners and press representatives.
Richard J. Sullivan, Applied Digital Solutions' chairman and CEO, waxed eloquent about the market potential of Digital Angel, claiming the company has "uncovered a total marketplace that is conservatively estimated to exceed $70 billion."
Randy Geissler, chairman and CEO of Digital Angel.net Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, zeroed in on potential applications.
"Our analysis shows that we are well-positioned to move quickly into certain applications while developing a number of others. Two areas of particular interest are in the healthcare arena," he said, "monitoring heart disease and respiratory disease patients." The tracking and monitoring of pets, he added, is also "right up our alley."
The demonstration, which was conducted by Dr. Peter Zhou and Dr. Keith Bolton, showed how Digital Angel "can be used to monitor a person's key body functions -- such as temperature and pulse -- and transmit that data wirelessly, on a real time basis, along with the accurate location of the person, to a web-enabled ground station or monitoring facility," according to a press statement.
The technology consists of a miniature sensor device, designed to be implanted just under the skin, that captures and wirelessly transmits the "wearer's" vital body-function data, such as body temperature or pulse, to an Internet-integrated ground station. In addition, the antenna receives information regarding the location of the individual from the GPS satellite. Both sets of data -- medical information and location -- are then wirelessly transmitted to the ground station and made available on Web-enabled desktop, laptop or wireless devices.
A more sophisticated version of microchip technologies currently used as electronic ID tags for pets, (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18758) Digital Angel is powered electromechanically through muscle movement, or it can be activated by an outside monitoring facility.
As WorldNetDaily has reported, (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17834) in addition to locating missing persons and monitoring physiological data, Digital Angel will be marketed as a means of verifying online consumer identity for the burgeoning e-commerce world.
In August, Sullivan told WND, "We are currently talking to a watch maker who is interested in placing the device on the back of their watches." He added that "technology is being developed that would allow Digital Angel to function from the back of a cellular phone, transmitting bio-sensor information when carried by the user."
And in an interview last March, the chief scientist, Zhou, told WorldNetDaily he believes the implant will be as popular as cell phones and vaccines.
Digital Angel "will be a connection from yourself to the electronic world. It will be your guardian, protector. It will bring good things to you," said Zhou.
"We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own soul," he added.
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[Rick_R]

They should make them explosive. Then implant one in every "visitor" and visa student when they enter the US, If you are still here and your visa expires.. boom off blows your arm.

[buttercup86]

The demonstration, which was conducted by Dr. Peter Zhou and Dr. Keith Bolton, showed how Digital Angel "can be used to monitor a person's key body functions -- such as temperature and pulse -- and transmit that data wirelessly, on a real time basis, along with the accurate location of the person, to a web-enabled ground station or monitoring facility," according to a press statement.
Damn... They'll know when your gettin some.
Or perfect gift for the jelous husband.

[RRRAAAYYY2]

Well they have been experimenting with these types of chips for a while. The idea is to make people want these things more than anything else. Right now some reasons for using this technology: 1-Cant lose your kids, always able to find them, also works on altimzers (sp) 2- No need to carry money of any sorts, or a wallet for that matter, 3-newest one, able to monitor your vital signs at all times, pretty cool.

The only draw back to them is that they would clearly fulfill one of the very last prophecies in the bible, which is no man can buy or sell without the mark of the beast, which will be in the right arm or forehead.

The computer security chips that US air force pilots get, and office security chips used in Toronto security offices are all found in right arms. Nothing to do with commerce yet, but it certainly makes sense for us to get them, unless you believe in biblical prophecy. But since a lot of Christians dont believe Christ rose from the dead, many wont have a problem with this.

[Hammer59]

I won't be getting one anytime soon, nor do I want one. One more freedom gone amuck.

[9secvega]

everyone that goes to war should have one.
if you get kidnaped they can find you and kill the fuckers

[i_miss_racing!]

everyone that goes to war should have one.
if you get kidnaped they can find you and kill the fuckers
helluva point!

[sigman]

They could be putting these into everyone at a DR's office, or at birth. Borrowed this from another site I frequent. This isn't 7 yrs. old.



Well, I happen to be working on some of this RFiD stuff.

In the article below it talks about a ten inch range...BS.

1. it is a funtion of the power of the reader and 2. in the works are powered verions which can transmit. 3. Try a nuke plant on a chip. No more AAA cells or 2032 batteries.



BTW, DHS also wants face recognition software and passive interation to determine your emotional, psychological and intellectual intent from temp, facial and eye movements and so on. Go to the Airport with your Mistress and her girl friend and the party might get started right there in line with a cavity search cause you are acting.........excited, intense, hot, nervous, pumped, like you are about to "explode" prematurely...LOL Just one Item among their High Priority Needs.


RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag

May 2007

The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced yesterday by Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio Frequency IDentification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters.
The previous record-holder, the Hitachi mu-chip, is just 0.4 x 0.4 millimeters. Take a look at the size of the mu-chip RFID tag on a human fingertip.

(Hitachi mu-chip tiny RFID tag)

Now, compare that with the new RFID tags. The "powder type" tags are some sixty times smaller.

(Powder RFID chips next to a human hair)

The new RFID chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38 digit number, like their predecessor. Hitachi used semiconductor miniaturization technology and electron beams to write data on the chip substrates to achieve the new, smaller size.
Hitachi's mu-chips are already in production; they were used to prevent ticket forgery at last year's Aichi international technology exposition. RFID 'powder,' on the other hand, is so much smaller that it can easily be incorporated into thin paper, like that used in paper currency and gift certificates.

Science fiction fans will have a field day with this new technology. In his 1998 novel Distraction, Bruce Sterling referred to bugged money:

They always played poker with European cash. There was American cash around, flimsy plastic stuff, but most people wouldn't take American cash anymore. It was hard to take American cash seriously when it was no longer convertible outside U.S. borders. Besides, all the bigger bills were bugged.

(Read more about bugged money)

These tiny RFID tags could be worked into any product; combined with RFID readers built into doorways, theft of consumer goods would be practically impossible. It's not clear from the references provided, but even if this chip needs an external antenna, the attached antenna would be a tiny ribbon of wire more narrow than a human hair and only a fraction of an inch long.

How far away could you be, and still read the information from this "powder RFID?" The source article is very thin; however, the mu-chip mentioned earlier is readable from a distance of 25 centimeters (about ten inches) with an external antenna like the one mentioned in the preceding paragraph. This doesn't sound like much, but it's certainly enough to read people going through doorways, for example.

These devices could also be used to identify and track people. For example, suppose you participated in some sort of protest or other organized activity. If police agencies sprinkled these tags around, every individual could be tracked and later identified at leisure, with powerful enough tag scanners.

To put it in the context of popular culture, see the picture below, which was taken from the 1996 movie Mission Impossible. One of the IMF operatives places a tracking tag on the shoulder of a computer programmer. Pretty clunky-looking tag...

(Tracking and ID tag from Mission Impossible movie)

Take a look at these earlier stories related to RFID, and consider how much easier it will be with tinier chips: RFID Sensor Tag Shower For Disasters (gentle rain of RFID), RFID-Maki: Easy Payment Sushi (just tag the sushi directly, then scan customer's stomach [no joke, see digestible tags]) and VeriChip Chairman Proposes RFID Chips For Immigrants (just dust the border).

Via Pink Tentacle. Also, read more about the mu-chip. Scroll down for more stories in the same category. (Story submitted 2/14/2007)
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