Human-tracking subdermal implant technology makes debut
found @ WorldNetDaily
see also Implanted Microchips
A NASDAQ-traded company has finally unveiled its long-touted
and highly controversial "Digital Angel" - a subdermal
microchip implant designed not merely for keeping tabs on
pets, but for widespread, worldwide use in tracking human
beings.
The high-tech device, engineered by
Applied Digital Solutions, Inc.
had its debut in 2000 before an overflow crowd of more than
300 invited guests at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
The audience included U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norman
Mineta, who addressed the crowd, as well as other government
officials, potential joint-venture/licensing partners and
press representatives.
Richard J. Sullivan, Applied Digital Solutions' chairman and
CEO, waxed eloquent about the market potential of Digital
Angel, claiming the company has "uncovered a total
marketplace that is conservatively estimated to exceed $70
billion."
Randy Geissler, chairman and CEO of Digital Angel.net Inc., a
wholly owned subsidiary, zeroed in on potential applications.
"Our analysis shows that we are well-positioned to move
quickly into certain applications while developing a number
of others. Two areas of particular interest are in the
healthcare arena," he said, "monitoring heart disease and
respiratory disease patients." The tracking and monitoring of
pets, he added, is also "right up our alley."
The demonstration, which was conducted by Dr. Peter Zhou and
Dr. Keith Bolton, showed how Digital Angel "can be used to
monitor a person's key body functions -- such as temperature
and pulse -- and transmit that data wirelessly, on a real
time basis, along with the accurate location of the person,
to a web-enabled ground station or monitoring facility,"
according to a press statement.
The technology consists of a miniature sensor device,
designed to be implanted just under the skin, that captures
and wirelessly transmits the "wearer's" vital body-function
data, such as body temperature or pulse, to an
Internet-integrated ground station. In addition, the antenna
receives information regarding the location of the individual
from the GPS satellite. Both sets of data -- medical
information and location -- are then wirelessly transmitted
to the ground station and made available on Web-enabled
desktop, laptop or wireless devices.
A more sophisticated version of microchip technologies
currently used as
electronic ID tags for pets,
Digital Angel is powered electromechanically through muscle
movement, or it can be activated by an outside monitoring
facility.
As WorldNetDaily has
reported,
in addition to locating missing persons and monitoring
physiological data, Digital Angel will be marketed as a means
of verifying online consumer identity for the burgeoning
e-commerce world.
In August, Sullivan told WND, "We are currently talking to a
watch maker who is interested in placing the device on the
back of their watches." He added that "technology is being
developed that would allow Digital Angel to function from the
back of a cellular phone, transmitting bio-sensor information
when carried by the user."
And in an interview last March, the chief scientist, Zhou,
told WorldNetDaily he believes the implant will be as popular
as cell phones and vaccines.
Digital Angel "will be a connection from yourself to the
electronic world. It will be your guardian, protector. It
will bring good things to you," said Zhou.
"We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own
soul," he added.
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