The news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted its 14-year ban on the use of silicone implants for breast augmentation and reconstructive surgery raises an interesting question: ...

The bodyhacking movement — inserting electronic implants under the skin containing information or radio frequency identification technology — is starting to take hold, and such devices may soon find ...

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the ...

In modern times, a portable storage device isn't far from our possession. Either we can use the storage on our phones or tablets, or we keep a small flash drive on a keychain. Accessing the data, ...

This chap placed an RFID sensor in his hand (or had a doctor do it, rather) and plans on wiring up his house and car with sensors that will allow all sorts of wireless magic to happy when he waves it ...

To date, about 2,000 radio frequency-identification, or RFID, chips have been implanted in humans worldwide, according to VeriChip Corp. The company, which sees a target market of 45 million Americans ...

Bodyhackers Implant RFID Chips to Customize Themselves Members of the so-called bodyhacker movement have been implanting RFID chips under their skin, programming them to perform various tasks. Photo: ...