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Steven Melendez 06.11.16 6:00 AM

""Biohackers" are putting microchips and magnets in their bodies for everything from unlocking the front door to detecting moon earthquakes."

"Tim Shank can guarantee he’ll never leave home without his keys. Why? His house keys are located inside his body.

Shank, the president of the Minneapolis futurist group TwinCities+, has a chip installed in his hand that can communicate electronically with his front door and tell it to unlock itself. His wife has one, too.

"You have mental checklists as you’re coming and going out of your home," Shank says. "One of those things is my wallet, keys, all those things I have with me. Once you start to eliminate all those things, you start to see all the mind space it actually clears not to have to worry about them."

In fact, Shank has several chips in his hand, including a near field communication (NFC) chip like the ones used in Apple Pay and similar systems, which stores a virtual business card with contact information for TwinCities+. "[For] people with Android phones, I can just tap their phone with my hand, right over the chip, and it will send that information to their phone," he says. In the past, he’s also used a chip to store a bitcoin wallet.

Shank is one of a growing number of "biohackers" who implant hardware ranging from microchips to magnets inside their bodies."

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https://www.fastcompany.com/3059769/ive-got-you-under-my-skin-the-new-frontier-of-digital-implants [fastcompany.com]

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