Jul
03
2009
Will Your ID Soon Be a Microchip Under Your Skin?
Posted by: Content Keyword RSS in Uncategorized, tags: Bac, Doctors, First Radio, Food And Drug, Food And Drug Administration, Grain Of Rice, Halley, Long Grain, Microchip, Microchips, Milestone, Radio Frequency Identification, Radio Frequency Identification Rfid, Sci Fi, Tricep, Verichip
by Drew Halley Yet another sci-fi milestone is upon us: microchips implanted under your skin and used to identify you. The VeriChip is the first radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip that’s been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in humans. The chip is the size of a long grain of rice, and can be implanted pretty much anywhere in the body (most commonly along the tricep). Depending on how it’s used, the chip could do anything from telling doctors your medical bac