African AIDS Epidemic Solution needs Thinkers

A successful model which diminuishes AIDS to the point where it is no longer an epidemic of growing proportions in Africa and refers to a total cost of $17 billion in 10 years has been put forth by this week in...

Indonesia's Papua plans to tag AIDS sufferers

I highlight the article in it's complete form... Indonesia is not my home and frankly I have no right to interfere or comment on their internal rules and laws, unfortunately I am an American and I have a big...

The microchip celebrates 50th birthday

September the 12th 2008 - the 50th birthday of the microchip. If Jack Kilby had been allowed holiday leave we might never have got the microchip or at least not as soon. In 50 years the chip has changed the...

Cyborg Lobsters Foil Poachers

Lobsters outfitted with special microchips easily allowed Canadian fisheries officers to catch some poachers in the act. The chips are emitters that are implanted in each lobster, who then wander into unmarked and...

AHAH (Asynchronous HTML over HTTP) on PICmicro

The Open Source TCP/IP stack, from Microchip, enable high-level Programmers to remote control input (temperature) and output (led lamp) at low-level layer. In this EXAMPLE ( www.ftpmicro.com/index_en.html#Example) You can control a remote application in AHAH language (a...

IBM, Intel make major chip breakthrough

"In duelling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip...

Breakthrough spurs microchip arms race

"Intel has long planned to begin making chips with 45-nanometer circuits later this year, and it said last week it has successfully produced working processors on that scale, putting it on track to meet its...

New biometric passports can be cloned using £100 equipment sold over internet

"Passports which have rocketed in value to make them more secure can be easily cloned using a microchip reader bought over the internet for less than £100."

Reading Dissident Web Sites

POLL ---- Who should be prevented from reading, or allowed to read, dissident web sites?

Teen with medical microchip dies in Fla.

Derek pushed his parents to look into the chips as a way to help store medical information for his father, who suffered a host of health problems, including cancer.

Implanted Identification -- The Next Evolution of RFID

RFID chips are already implanted in people. At some time in the future, you might be offered RFID implantation. It's much easier than carrying plastic ID or paper ID.

Consumer reports finds personal privacy concerns in planned uses of RFIDs

May, 2006. The tiny radio chip traveling with you in your shorts.

the first human cyborg

March, 2002.  Cyborg technology enables the human nervous system to be linked to computer. The rifidborg is an RFID extension of the cyborg.

rifidborgs have feelings too

A spychip is what some people call an RFID chip. Such people are usually bigots who discriminate against rifidborgs.

RFID Chip

A RFID Chip is a tiny bit of silicon, smaller than a grain of rice, that carries information—anything from a retail price, to cooking instructions, to your complete medical records.

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