I Watched a Guy Get a Chip Implanted in His Hand, and It Wasn’t Even That Weird

At Vancouver’s recent From Now conference, biohacker Amal Graafstra gave a talk on the future of self-modification to around 100 fairly straight-laced attendees. As if the future of tech implants wasn’t eye-opening enough, Graafstra finished the talk by personally implanting conference organizer Nik Badminton with an electronic tag, to the shock and awe of the whole crowd. I won’t lie, watching Graafstra, the CEO of DangerousThings.com​, implant a tag in Badminton’s left hand was surreal. With his newly implanted programmable RFID tag, Badminton already had possible uses for it mapped out, like storing and sharing “personal health records and exclusive links to an art project…

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