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RFID: alternate implant sites?

obrian93
obrian93
May 2014
edited February 2015
in RFID/NFC
Oh, Google. We used to be friends. I can't search for RFID tagging without the entire result being debates about armageddon or Obamacare conspiracies.

Does anyone here have one of the DT tags implanted anywhere outside the magic triangle? I recently bought a ring from dangerousthings, pried off the tag, and stuck it to the usual implant site on the back of my hand.

Phone locking, for example. With the tag, I can unlock the phone without entering a PIN. But it takes two hands to do it. My dreadful inaccuracy with connecting the tag to the reader on the phone notwithstanding, it was pretty klunky.

Any location brings differing (usually elevated) risks. So far the meaty bit of my thumb on my palm is becoming the most attractive.

Thanks, all!
Tagged: rfid

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  1. McSTUFF
    McSTUFF
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    May 2014
    My RFID tag is currently being used as a plug in a 12ga conch piercing in my left ear.
  2. obrian93
    obrian93
    May 2014
    That makes me want to imagine answering a call by simply holding the phone to your ear. Of course, it would add a layer of giggling if you were to use it for building access.

    (also: filtering google's nonsense led me to several images of weird tumors being removed. i think i was happier with the obamacare stuff)
  3. glims
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    amal and i did some testing with impact and pressure for the implants. in theory, you can put it just about anywhere (tho on or near bones is less ideal). i am in no way suggesting that you should do so, just to be clear.

    The reason the implant is put in the location that it is, is that placing it elsewhere can cause irritation and adverse biological response to pressure and whatnot.

    as with all conversations about implants, i will reiterate, do not put things in impact prone areas, like the meaty bit of your thumb. the reason that the back of your hand is a good place is that it is meaty by proximity instead of meaty through being an impact area. There are places on your body that may be better implant sites, physiologically, but they would be way more awkward (your thigh, your butt, your pec, etc)
  4. McSTUFF
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    Mine is not an implant, merely a piercing.  It hasn't fallen out but it is possible to lose it.  I haven't tried to read an NFC tag placed there so I don't know if the range of a phone's reader is enough to pick up an ear tag like mine.  If the tag were in my ear lob that would probably reduce the necessary range.  Like you said, @obrian93, answering a phone by putting it to your ear is intuitive but accessing a door by headbutting the jamb looks a little odd.
  5. Proxy
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    To each their own. It might improve security by scaring off people from getting in if they believe they have to headbutt the jamb to enter the building without knowing why XD
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