CNBC’s Big Brother, Big Business Special…
CNBC’s two hour Big Brother, Big Business special airs tonight at 9pm ET. There’s a preview of the show up on YouTube…
November 1, 2006
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I watched the full program “Big Brother, Big Business,” tonight. The head of VeriChip said something to the effect that there is no way to pinpoint a persons whereabouts with an implanted chip. I don’t think so. I wrote a long research paper on this in Summer of 2005–here is an excerpt with references:
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
“The Digital AngelTM,” (owned by Applied Digital Solutions, parent company to VeriChipTM) is an implantable human tracking device that allows the movements of an implanted individual to be tracked in real-time via GPS, relayed wirelessly to the Internet, and displayed on a screen (Gossett, 2002). The device is powered electromagnetically by muscle movement and can be triggered by the ‘wearer’ or the monitoring facility.
To facilitate GPS tracking of its chip implant, Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) has contracted with ORBCOMM, a global satellite and telecommunications company, for its services. The two companies are also collaborating to develop new military, security and healthcare applications for the chip, all for global markets (ORBCOMM, 2004).
Future medical capabilities of human-tracking implants include monitoring heart patients or using blood-oxygen analysis to determine if a subject is awake or asleep, at any distance from a monitor. The person monitoring the subject can even tell exactly where on the continuum between waking and sleeping the patient is (Gossett, 2002).
GOSSETT, S. (2002, February 4). Post-9/11 security fears usher in subdermal chips. Retrieved July 13, 2005 from World Net Daily.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26316
ORBCOMM. (2004, December 15). ORBCOMM announces application development agreement with VERICHIP™ Corporation. Retrieved July 16, 2005 from ORBCOMM.
http://www.orbcomm.com/wwwroot/public/news/readNewsArticle.jsp?ARTI CLE_ID=12
There is A LOT MORE information (also reputable) on the internet about Human ID Chip Implant technology…LOOK IT UP.
Comment by Alison — November 2, 2006 @ 12:34 am
Look…
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17705
http://www.orbcomm.com/wwwroot/public/news/readNewsArticle.jsp?ARTICLE_ID=12
Comment by Alison — November 2, 2006 @ 12:57 am
The high-tech device, engineered by Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. had its debut Monday 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.
Comment by Alison — November 2, 2006 @ 1:02 am
url for that article
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17705
Comment by Alison — November 2, 2006 @ 1:04 am
http://www.digitalangelcorp.com/
Comment by Alison — November 2, 2006 @ 1:26 am