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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:20 pm Post subject: Two Year Pilot Program of Human RFID Chip Implant Underway
Wireless IQ | July 20 2006
VeriChip Corporation announced that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the largest health insurer in the state, has agreed to a two-year pilot program of VeriChip's VeriMed Patient Identification System in conjunction with Hackensack University Medical Center and its physicians. In this new test program, participating patients suffering from chronic diseases would be provided with the VeriChip implantable microchip, to provide emergency room staff easy access to those patients' medical information, as well as to help avoid costly or serious medical errors.
Under this trial, participating Horizon BCBSNJ members with chronic illnesses will receive VeriChip's FDA-approved, human-implantable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchips inserted just under the skin of their right tricep. Each patient's unique 16-digit identifier found within the microchip will then tie into their individual electronic medical record stored within the VeriMed Patient Registry accessible by Hackensack University Medical Center's physicians. Each record will contain vital information related to the patient's condition, family contacts, lab test data, and pharmacy records helping make the difference between life and death during an emergency.
"This two-year collaboration is a milestone for VeriMed and for our implantable identification technology marking the first time a health insurer has sponsored such a program," stated Kevin McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer, VeriChip Corporation.
For more information on VeriMed, please contact 1-800-970-CHIP or email info@verichipcorp.com.
RFID tags in our livestock, in our pets, in our licenses, in passports, in food, in clothing and maybe someday in you. It is getting rather excessive. Fortunately there are a number of ways to kill RFID chips. See the Technical Documents section of the right hand sidebar for how to build your very own RFID bomb with which you can clear you home of unauthorized RFID chips. For the less technically inclined there is a simple device that most people already own which does a admirable job of frying RFID chips.
The way that passive RFID chips work is they pickup a radio signal from the wand using a large in-chip antenna. This energy is stored up over a short period to accumulate enough power to activate the chip and then send back its code number to the receiver.
If you can send out a strong enough signal, and it doesn't take much, you will overload the RFID chip and burn it out.
They'll have had the technology for quite some time, theyve been using Invisable cloaks for a while.
The Guardian
They are the ultimate form of camouflage. Put one on, and you disappear from view. One saved Harry Potter from many tight scrapes, and in the film Die Another Day the technology provided James Bond with the ultimate escape vehicle, an invisible car.
But now Japanese scientists have turned fantasy into reality by creating an invisibility cloak that makes it possible to see straight through its wearer. He, or she, simply vanishes from view.
The garment -- demonstrated last week at Nextfest, an exhibition of emerging technologies in San Francisco -- is the work of Japanese inventor Susumu Tachi, a professor of computer science and physics at the University of Tokyo.
"It's a kind of augmented reality," he said of his device.
In reality, the "optical camouflage" cloak is anything but invisible. It is made up of "retro-reflective material" coated with tiny light-reflective beads that cover its entire length. The cloak is also fitted with cameras that project what is at the back of the wearer on to the front, and vice versa. The effect, as the Japanese team demonstrated last week, is to make the wearer blend with his background.
The material was used to coat a ball, a brick and a cloak. In each case, it appeared as if the viewer could see through each item as it was moved about by a human operator to the back of the room.
The effect was not total, but it was sufficient to demonstrate that optical camouflage is technically possible, though one expert -- writing in Wired magazine recently -- pointed out that, for an invisibility cloak to work, it would have to have six stereoscopic cameras built into it, be covered with 11,6-million "hyperpixels", each consisting of a very bright electronic display, and be controlled by a super-fast computer that would run on a power source that could be built into the cloak.
In short, a little more work will be needed before invisibility technology becomes reality, and certainly has some way to go before it reaches the effectiveness of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. This originally belonged to his wizard father, James, and is used in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to let Harry move around the wizard village of Hogsmeade unnoticed.
The device is attracting serious attention from military experts keen to exploit a technology that could help troops move into action without being spotted.
Nor does the potential end there, says Tachi's colleague, Naoki Kawakami.
"It could be used to help pilots see through the floor of the cockpit at a runway below, or for drivers trying to see through a fender to park a car."
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