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08-25-2016, 12:35 PM
Meet the cyborg bringing biohacking to the people
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In the beginning, it was just about getting rid of the keys to his ******.
American bio****** Amal Graafstra, 40, decided in 2005 that he wanted to be done with such archaic tech**logy "from like 700 BC." He looked at iris scanning and fingerprint reading as solutions for opening his ****** door, but decided those options were expensive and unreliable.
SEE ALSO: One man's quest to pay for lunch with a chip implanted in his thumb (http://mashable.com/2016/06/05/chip-implant-payments-meow/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Inspired by the way pets are commonly tagged, he settled on a safe radio-frequency identification (RFID) implant. "I used to say that if I was beaten up and naked in the back alley, I still want to get into my door," he told Mashable Australia. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/bio-hacking-amal-graafstra/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In the beginning, it was just about getting rid of the keys to his ******.
American bio****** Amal Graafstra, 40, decided in 2005 that he wanted to be done with such archaic tech**logy "from like 700 BC." He looked at iris scanning and fingerprint reading as solutions for opening his ****** door, but decided those options were expensive and unreliable.
SEE ALSO: One man's quest to pay for lunch with a chip implanted in his thumb (http://mashable.com/2016/06/05/chip-implant-payments-meow/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Inspired by the way pets are commonly tagged, he settled on a safe radio-frequency identification (RFID) implant. "I used to say that if I was beaten up and naked in the back alley, I still want to get into my door," he told Mashable Australia. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/bio-hacking-amal-graafstra/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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