"It sounds like a short story cooked up by Kurt Vonnegut, but it really happened to Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri - who posted about his predicament in his Facebook account this month, complete with an x-ray picture of his hand showing the white outline of the offending microchip embedded in the meat between his thumb and index finger."
"On first glance, it's a pretty funny anecdote, but as companies like billionaire Elon Musk's Neuralink push brain chips to the public, Wang's personal tale serves as a cautionary tale for the risks of having any technology, whether private and public, embedded into your body; companies may go out of business, product lines discontinued, or in the case of Wang, you stupidly forget the bloody password."
Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri, had an RFID microchip implanted between his thumb and index finger for magic tricks. The implant required a smartphone RFID reader pressed to his hand to trigger effects, which eroded the mystery of the stunts. He later rewrote the chip with a Bitcoin address and linked it to an Imgur image, then ultimately forgot the password controlling the device. An x‑ray shows the chip in his hand. The incident illustrates hazards of body‑embedded consumer technology: obsolescence, company failure, discontinued products, and loss of user access credentials.
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