The news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted its 14-year ban on the use of silicone implants for breast augmentation and reconstructive surgery raises an interesting question: ...

Louis Anderson, a 16-year-old aspiring biotech entrepreneur, eats dinner with an anarchist, a world-renowned tongue splitter and at least 30 people who have implanted themselves with magnets or ...

Wisconsin this week will become one of the first states to ban the forcible implantation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into humans. The ban begins on Wednesday, when legislation signed ...

The bodyhacking movement — inserting electronic implants under the skin containing information or radio frequency identification technology — is starting to take hold, and such devices may soon find ...

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the ...

A subset of hackers have RFID implants, but there is a limited catalog. When [Miana] looked for a device that would open a secure door at her work, she did not find the implant she needed, even though ...

In modern times, a portable storage device isn't far from our possession. Either we can use the storage on our phones or tablets, or we keep a small flash drive on a keychain. Accessing the data, ...

There's a cute cartoon that's been making the rounds in regulatory and consumer data rights circles lately. Unfortunately, I'd be violating licensing rights if I published it. You can link to it here, ...

Hi this summer i decided implant couple of rfid chips under my skin. Now I am bored.How can i detect and deactive these devices. Yeah.. you can say go hospital MRI or something detect these and help ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Pittsburg startup has launched what could be one of the first RFID systems to debut in an operating room setting. ClearCount Medical Solutions uses RFID to automate the process of ...