• Neil Harbisson had an antenna implanted in his head
Neil Harbisson is probably the most famous cyborg. He was born with a severe form of color blindness that doesn't allow him to see color at all.
• Amal Graafstra has RFID chips in his hands
Neil Harbisson is probably the most famous cyborg. He was born with a severe form of color blindness that doesn't allow him to see color at all.
• Amal Graafstra has RFID chips in his hands
Amal Graafstra has implanted an RFID chip into each of his hands, which you can see, near his thumbs in that X-ray photo.
And he founded a company, Dangerous Things, that sells do-it-yourself implant kits to others who want to do the same.
A few years ago, Adi Robertson had a magnet implanted in her ring finger and last June, she visited Dangerous Things, bought an NFC chip, and implanted that in her hand, too.
The magnet lets her do things like levitate a beer cap, she said in a recent essay about it on The Verge.
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at The University of Reading, England, where he does research into artificial intelligence, robotics, and biomedical engineering
Tim Cannon has created a device that tracks everything going on with the body, much like a Fitbit, but is implanted under the skin, not just worn.
It's called the Circadia 1.0, and it is housed in a black box that he had implanted in his arm.
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