Now You Can Start Your Car Via A Microchip Surgically Implanted Into Your Hand
A British inventor has designed and implanted a microchip that can start his car just by putting his hand on his steering wheel.
The chip, which has been surgically implanted into the flesh between his thumb and forefinger, uses existing RFID and NFC technologies to send a short-range signal to those systems it’s paired with. As well as having retro-fitted his BMW Z4 to start when he puts his hand on the wheel, Steven Northam has also changed his home and office locks to open for the chip.
While some of us will inevitably argue that this is technology for technology’s sake, Northam believes it will be commonplace in 20 years. The advantages, he says, are that as long as your hand hasn’t gone missing you’ll be able to access your home and/or office. There are no keys or cards to lose, break or fail. On the other hand, if the chip stops working, it’s going to be a lot more difficult to sort that problem out.
It will cost between £230 and £260 to have a chip implanted now that Northam’s company BioTeq has teamed up with a consultant anaesthetist to ensure the procedure is carried out ‘to a medical standard’. He’s hoping that other surgical experts across the country will agree to offer the implant as well.
Changing your locks is a little more expensive, with £300 the quoted price for a new home or office entry system, per door. Complete offices including employee chips cost from £5000, and one business is already making it a reality for its buildings and six employees. Northam hasn’t said how much the Z4’s alterations cost.
Would you go for something like this if it meant a new, totally button- and key-free start for your car, or should we really stop at the current push-button keyless systems?
Via: The Telegraph
Comments
Technology is now going into our own body making us less human than we’re already are.
I’m not human anyway, but still
Why do people CARE about this sort of thing? Devote your time and resources towards soemthing that is actually HELPFUL!
Like a renewable fuel source that will render today’s cars carbon neutral
Help, I’ve lost my keys!
Or you could put the chip in a ring and not need surgery when you sell your car or house
Just get the ring resized
I guess car thieves can cut off your hand and start the car with them.
My dream of starting a car:
Turn on battery switch
Fuel pump
Water pump
Oil pump
Get out and unpin and open bonnet
Spray starter fluid into fuel inlet
Get back into car
Turn on choke
Start
Let it warm up
Turn on radiator fan
Turn off choke
Get out again and close and pin the bonnet
Get in
Close the door
Attach the harness
Steven Northam’s dream:
Puts hands on steering wheel
A simple turn of the ignition key is not enough?
I can understand that to some extend, but that would be a bit problematic in an emergency, where you’d might want to get away fast, don’t you think so? xD
What are you then ?
One time I was so lazy that I didn’t want to decline my chair to reach the keyboard so I just copied and pasted letters from the comment section
But… why? Just another place for things to go horribly wrong and resulting in a lost car or surgery to get to the microchip. For a few seconds saved. Maybe this is the future, but the world isn’t ready for this.