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Forget your keys often?
A Michigan man took this common problem into his own hands — literally.
Brandon Dalaly, 41, is using implanted microchips in his hand to unlock his home and start his car. He’s hoping to use the same technology to replace his wallet soon.
“It’s not just a Tesla key, you are able to have it be a secure crypto storage wallet, I can at some point in the future do credit card transactions,” Dalaly told WXYZ.
The chips, which are about the size of a small paper clip, have a copper coil in the middle that works as an NFC antenna, Dalaly explained.
Dalaly said a piercer implanted each $300 microchip for $100.
The implanted microchip in his left hand serves two purposes: unlocking his home and accessing medical records.
“So you can tap, the chip lights green, shows its connecting, so it will be able to tell you blood type, emergency contact info, and you are able to pull up the COVID vax card from here, too,” Dalaly said.
Even though Dalaly has heard from people who think he’s “a little crazy,” he said he’s focused on the reasons he initially decided to pursue this kind of technology.
“This is something I’m doing for me,” he said. “It doesn’t affect anybody else, so again, not sure why people are getting so upset about it. I’m not saying this technology is for everybody, I’m saying in the future, you might start to see more of these things. It could possibly save someone’s life.”
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