Sweden: Employees get high-tech microchip in their hands
Workers in a Swedish office complex called Epicenter get around using high-tech microchips embedded in their hands. The microchip allows employees in the building to access security doors, use the photocopier, and even pay for their lunch, all with the swipe of their hand.
“At Epicenter, these chips literally provide access; doors open at the wave of a microchipped hand, and instead of fumbling for a card to activate the office printer, people instead press their hands against a chip reader. In turn, the door and the printer recognize which person who uses them, creating a digital log of behaviors once too mundane to record.”Hannes Sjoblad, the chief disruption officer at the Swedish bio-hacking group BioNyfiken, which implanted the chips into the Epicenter workers, sees a bright future for micro-chipping within the workforce and beyond. Sjoblad notes that people are already interacting with technology on a daily basis, but it is messy. Why not make it more convenient?
“We already interact with technology all the time. Today it’s a bit messy — we need pin codes and passwords — wouldn’t it be easy to just touch with your hand?”
[…] “At Epicenter, these chips literally provide access; doors open at the wave of a microchipped hand, and instead of fumbling for a card to activate the office printer, people instead press their hands against a chip reader. In turn, the door and the printer recognize which person who uses them, creating a digital log of behaviors once too mundane to record,” the report stated. […]