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Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo The retinal implant receives a signal via wireless transmission, encodes it into specific patterns of stimulation pulses that are conducted through a cable to the electrode array that stimulates the retina. [21 Aug 2009]
The Paperless Office for Small/Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs): You're so Close!
White Paper Companies with the vision to implant a system that grows with them are able to tailor their EDM system in a way that connects their entire operation, making their business more efficient and their enterprise more... [19 May 2009]
Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'
News He said the Trojan was scanning networks for statements on a certain underground project and then trying to implant itself on any network that mentioned it. Suleyman Anil, head of Nato Computer Incident Response... [07 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Freedom
Comment Moreover, it can be relatively easy to implant information with or without the owner's knowledge or permission. Compiled at the Clarion Hotel, Stockholm, and despatched from Arlanda Airport via one of many public wi-fi... [15 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?
News He said: "In the longer term I expect identity will be via an implant, and we will be connected permanently to the net. Iris and fingerprint-scanning technology will replace passwords and PIN numbers as the long-term... [16 Feb 2006]
Ex-Bush official to get RFID implant
News Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged. Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that... [19 Jul 2005]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News Spyware and adware also implant themselves surreptitiously on the computers of unsuspecting victims. Personal computers that play unwitting host to "zombie" code are proliferating at a startling pace, according to a new... [12 Jul 2005]
Tech brain implant reads man's mind
News Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University, has recently conducted experiments to connect his nervous system to a PC using an RFID implant in his arm. Cybernetics - the fusion of human beings and... [01 Apr 2005]
Leader: RFID in prisons - does anyone care?
Leader Compare this to US hospitals' plans to implant chips in the arms of patients and staff. US prisons have started using RFID chips to keep track of prisoners, protect staff and increase security. To date this technology... [02 Aug 2004]
RFID chips headed for hospitals?
News Along with its attorney general's implant, Mexico has evaluated the chips as a way to better identify children in the event of a kidnapping. The Federal Drug Administration issued a ruling on Tuesday that essentially... [28 Jul 2004]
The rights and wrongs of chipping children
News Reader Pete Bellamy said: "[This is] the first salvo in the war to implant chips in the world's population. RFID has always provoked strong opinions - from supermarkets proclaiming it to be the best thing since sliced... [12 Jul 2004]
Human chip implant credit card alternative
News Credit cards could be replaced by the controversial radio frequency identification tags implanted under the skin to identify people at cash machines. Applied Digital Solutions is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to undergo a... [01 Dec 2003]
Radio chips implanted inside human brain inside 10 years
News In a talk to students yesterday, he said that he plans to surgically implant a radio chip in his brain in about a decade, when such cybernetics technology becomes available. An augmented brain will get so used to its... [23 Sep 2003]
New Windows virus outbreak just a matter of days
News With a buffer overflow, hackers can take control of a computer and implant unwanted programs. A virus or worm that exploits newly revealed vulnerabilities in the current versions of Windows could emerge fairly soon,... [11 Sep 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Short-termism of the worst kind
Comment All healthcare systems are reeling under increasing demand and pressure from aging populations that expect to live forever, and implant technologies have become a big deal. Short-term fixes often mean long-term problems. [23 Apr 2003]
