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There are plenty of uses. Braces for teeth straightening. Cochlea implant for assisted hearing. Bionic eye to improve sight. Insulin pump to regulate blood glucose levels. Pace maker to supplement failing pacemaker cells. Never understood why people associated "biohack implants" with sticking a magnet or NFC chip in your finger.
You could easily cut an Oyster Card chip out of the card, stick it in your hand and use it to travel in London.
Something like this has been done before, albeit in the form of objects like rings: http://www.ds72.com/projects/oyster-ring So while possible unfortunately tampering with Oyster cards is frowned upon by TfL. It might not technically be illegal but it'll certainly run you into problems when checked by traffic inspectors. The answer to this StackExchange question gives an in-depth explanation of the Oyster card's cryp…
(Officially, at least. I've seen them happily scan the outsides of people's wallets.)
You could easily cut an Oyster Card chip out of the card, stick it in your hand and use it to travel in London.
You could easily cut an Oyster Card chip out of the card, stick it in your hand and use it to travel in London.
Does a CGM glucose monitoring sensor count? I get the values real time to my android watch and remote InfluxDB for later analysis.
There are plenty of uses. Braces for teeth straightening. Cochlea implant for assisted hearing. Bionic eye to improve sight. Insulin pump to regulate blood glucose levels. Pace maker to supplement failing pacemaker cells. Never understood why people associated "biohack implants" with sticking a magnet or NFC chip in your finger.
Gobs and gobs of stories poured out about that in the early 2010's. Seems pretty much out of fashion now.
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Something like this has been done before, albeit in the form of objects like rings: http://www.ds72.com/projects/oyster-ring So while possible unfortunately tampering with Oyster cards is frowned upon by TfL. It might not technically be illegal but it'll certainly run you into problems when checked by traffic inspectors. The answer to this StackExchange question gives an in-depth explanation of the Oyster card's cryp…
I would suspect that your troubles go beyond "frowns". A ticket inspector wants to see a valid oyster card, not a party trick, and whether it scans or not, I don't think it's a high bar to argue that a tampered with card isn't valid, period. (Officially, at least. I've seen them happily scan the outsides of people's wallets.)
You could easily cut an Oyster Card chip out of the card, stick it in your hand and use it to travel in London.
Until you want to do something simple like change the zones on a travelcard, and TfL issue you a new card.
You could easily cut an Oyster Card chip out of the card, stick it in your hand and use it to travel in London.