Chips were implanted into the back of those employees' hands that from the Epicenter hi tech office block in Stockholm. The microchips allows them to use the photocopier, open security doors and even pay for their lunch.
The chips which are same size as a grain of rice use radio-frequency identification(RFID).
Radio-frequency identification is the wireless use of electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically stored information.
Some tags are powered by electromagnetic induction from magnetic fields produced near the reader. Some types collect energy from the interrogating radio waves and act as a passive transponder. Other types have a local power source such as a battery and may operate at hundreds of meters from the reader.
Unlike a barcode, the tag does not necessarily need to be within line of sight of the reader, and may be embedded in the tracked object. Radio frequency identification is one method for Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC).
"We have only just started discovering all of the things having a microchip could allow us to do," Hannes Sjoblad said, who is the chief disruption officer at the Swedish bio-hacking group BioNyfiken. "We want to get access to understand this technology before big companies and government come to us and announce everyone should get chipped - the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip."
Ben Slater, a Brisbane man, had one of the chips being use din Stockholm injected into his left hand through a syringe at a Melbourne tattoo parlour. He told us he can swing his front door open, switch on his lights and store personal information with the flick of his hand.
"Although the procedure to implant the microchip was painful, but it end quickly," Ben said, "it intrigued me and I want to get the chip implanted to generate discussion."
EPCglobal is leading the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification in today's fast-moving, information rich trading networks.
