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**Implant chip to identify the dead **
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41347000/jpg/_41347857_wtc_203index.jpg Dr Seelig first tried the chip after the 11 September attacks
The carnage inflicted by bomb attacks in Egypt, London and across Iraq has raised the problem of how the authorities identify people in an emergency situation.
Whether through natural disaster or man-made, the killing of large numbers of people presents a great challenge to the emergency services, who have to identify the victims as quickly as possible.
One aid to identification advocated by an American company is the VeriChip, a small device containing a unique number injected into a person’s arm.
During 11 September, some rescue workers, aware of the huge dangers they were facing, took to writing their badge number on their skin, in case they became victims themselves.
Their attempts to ensure their own identity should the worst happen was spotted by New Jersey surgeon Richard Seelig. Five days later, he injected himself with two rice grain-sized chips, containing a unique number which could be used to identify him.
“I wanted to demonstrate its effectiveness as being used as an identifier for people,” Dr Seelig told BBC World Service’s Analysis programme. “Also, I wanted to show it could be as comfortable for a person as not having one, so that it wouldn’t interfere with that person’s daily life.”
Read entire article here:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721175.stm
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41347000/jpg/_41347857_wtc_203index.jpg Dr Seelig first tried the chip after the 11 September attacks
The carnage inflicted by bomb attacks in Egypt, London and across Iraq has raised the problem of how the authorities identify people in an emergency situation.
Whether through natural disaster or man-made, the killing of large numbers of people presents a great challenge to the emergency services, who have to identify the victims as quickly as possible.
One aid to identification advocated by an American company is the VeriChip, a small device containing a unique number injected into a person’s arm.
During 11 September, some rescue workers, aware of the huge dangers they were facing, took to writing their badge number on their skin, in case they became victims themselves.
Their attempts to ensure their own identity should the worst happen was spotted by New Jersey surgeon Richard Seelig. Five days later, he injected himself with two rice grain-sized chips, containing a unique number which could be used to identify him.
“I wanted to demonstrate its effectiveness as being used as an identifier for people,” Dr Seelig told BBC World Service’s Analysis programme. “Also, I wanted to show it could be as comfortable for a person as not having one, so that it wouldn’t interfere with that person’s daily life.”
Read entire article here:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721175.stm