A company that embeds a microchip that carries out NFC communication within an employee's body

In science fiction movies, you may see a scene that opens the door just by holding your hand without using equipment, but by embedding as much rice grains as micro-chips in the hands of real employees, holding hands office There are companies that enable doors and printers inside.

Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies - LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microchip-employees-20170403-story.html

Epicenter, a Belgian startup, practices unprecedented ideas of embedding microchips in the body of a desired employee. A microchip as large as rice grains is injected between the thumb and forefinger and the root of little finger using a dedicated syringe. Microchip responds to various leaders in the office through NFC, allowing opening and closing doors, operating printers, purchasing drinks, just by holding hands.


The same microchip itself is not a new technology,Individual identification microchip for petIt has been put into practical use as delivery and tracking of delivery staff. However, Epicenter was the first to implant a microchip to humans in a wide range of company size. The following is a microchip embedded in the body, it seems that Epicenter embeds similar things.


However, there is no biological problem to embed a microchip that performs NFC communication in the body, but various privacy problems are concerned. Mr. Ben Riverton, a microbiologist at the Karolinska Institute, said, "The ethical dilemma gets bigger enough that the microchip is refined, conceptually it's your health care data, whereabouts, working hours, We can get up to the time of toilet break. "

Epicenter founder Patrick Melston also has embedded a microchip in his body, "It is my first attempt, but embedding microchips in my body is a very big step for people Today people are already implanting cardiac pacemakers and other devices in their bodies, the only difference being that the chip itself can actually communicate with external devices. "


Epicenter Group has more than 100 companies and more than 2000 employees. We are implanting Microchip for employees who wish to use from 2015, and 150 employees who have embedded microchip already have reached 150 people. Fredric Kaijser (47), one of the employees of Epicenter with embedded microchip, said, "Many people care about privacy and other issues, but I like to experiment with new technologies only I am enjoying what I can bring to the future by participating in this attempt. "

Epicenter is holding an event to embed microchips every month. You can see from the following movie how the microchip is actually injected by injection and how the embedded microchip is manipulating doors and printers.

Stockholm: Microchipped office workers feel 'very modern' using hand-implanted chips to open doors - YouTube