Ultra-wearable tech: Russian engineer sews NFC chip into his hand
A Russian engineer claims to have sewed an NFC chip into his hand, allowing him to complete certain wireless tasks, such as entering the Moscow subway and unlocking the door to his office building. According to a video on the YouTube channel Madrobots.ru, the engineer’s name is Vlad Zaitsev, and he plans similar technological insertions in the future.
According to Madrobots.ru’s YouTube video, Zaitsev cut open his left hand with a scalpel, inserted the computer chip from his Moscow subway “Troika” card, and sewed up the incision.
Warning: the following video contains graphic footage of a man's hand being sliced open, in order to stuff a computer chip under his skin.
According to Madrobots.ru, Zaitsev wants next to sew into his other hand the computer chip from his credit card.
In an interview with the news website TJournal, Nikolai Belousov, the founder of Madrobots.ru, said the operation took place at a “bio-modeling” facility under the supervision of a doctor with the aid of antibiotics and other medicines to prevent infection and excessive blood loss. Belousov says most of the body modifications at this facility involve piercings.
The doctor told him to keep the stitching clean, not to hit it on anything or open it up, and to take antibiotics. Basically it was just like any operation with stitches. Vlad’s relatives liked the idea.