Tim Cannon, a software developer from Pittsburgh who calls himself a ” biohacker,” suffered a painful operation – without anesthetic – to have an electronic enhancement chip inserted under the skin of his arm.
The operation to install the huge electronic chip – about the size of a pack of cards – was carried out without the help of a doctor. Cannon had the chip inserted to monitor his body temperature.
The Daily Mirror reports that the procedure, which inserted the chip into his left forearm, was performed by a ” body modification artist” and tattooist Steve Haworth, who was obliged to perform the operation because medically licensed surgeons are forbidden from implanting devices that have not received government approval.
He used ice to dull the pain!
The biochip communicates with his Android tablet over a wireless Bluetooth connection, and can send him a text if he starts running a fever. It isn’t exactly invisible, even though it is partly hidden by a tattoo, due to a series of small flashing lights on the device.
Cannon works for Grindhouse Wetware, a company that declares that it is dedicated to “augmenting humanity using safe, affordable open source technology. He claims that he is the first person to have a device implanted into his body purely for the purpose of “enhancing” himself.
Cannon’s interest in electronic body modification arose out out of a desire for immortality.
In an interview posted on the YouTube channel Motherboard TV, he said “I want to live to be thousands of years old. I don’t want to die. I don’t understand why anybody would.”
In another interview he said the procedure involved “a lot of pain and a lot of grunting” and his body had put itself into “trauma mode.”
He joked, “As far as my body knows, I’ve basically just been stabbed many times. ”
The video includes before and after interviews. If you haven’t looked at it yet – be warned, it’s pretty graphic!.
