Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals

VeriChip is also working on an implant that will contain a Global Positioning System. Such a device would allow an individual with a scanner to pinpoint someone's position on the globe.

From: "T[.] Cullen"
To: "Sterling" <sterlingda@pureenergysystems.co*m>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:34 AM
Subject: For Greater Things: More chips are coming.


Here's a link on a news story yesterday about the latest on their plan to implant chips in people.
http://news.com.com/Under-the-skin+ID+chips+move+toward+U.S.+hospitals/
2100-7337_3-5285815.html?part=rss&tag=5285815&subj=news.7337.20
or try: http://tinyurl.com/4wkl3
(back-up copy here)

I know they have been testing them for years, mostly on prisoners. Here are some quotes from this story:

VeriChip, the company that makes radio frequency identification--RFID--tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into hospitals.

A person with the chip under his or her skin can enter a secured room or complete a financial transaction.

The idea for employing the tags to identify humans came after the horror of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Fulcher said. Richard Seelig, vice president of medical applications at Applied, saw on TV how firemen were writing their badge numbers on their arm with pen so they could be identified in the event of a disaster

He inserted Digital Angel tags in his body and told the CEO that they worked. VeriChip was born.

About 7,000 VeriChip tags have been sold, and approximately 1,000 have been inserted in humans. The chips
only work with VeriChip's scanners.

But FN Manufacturing, a South Carolina gun maker, is evaluating the technology for "smart guns," which contain sensor-activated grips so that only their owners can fire them.

Also, VeriChip is working on an implant that will contain a Global Positioning System. Such a device would allow an individual with a scanner to pinpoint someone's position on the globe.

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