Is it really feasible to implant chips into the human body in sci-fi blockbusters?

There are plenty of science nerds out there who have already tried it. Electronic chip implantation technology has been around for decades in the medical community, and people usually only consider implanting a medical device as a last resort, but as more and more "tech nerds" are emerging, this inherent notion is being quietly broken.

In late 2014, Raymond McCauley, a professor at Singularity University in the United States, implanted a tiny microchip capsule in the muzzle of his left hand. According to him, the implantation process was a minor surgery and he bled just a little.

"The whole process was like being stung by a bee when you're a kid, and when the implantation was complete, there was a bulge the size of a grain of rice where the chip was located, but there was no further pain." The chip can store data and also supports NFC (near field communication technology) wireless transmission.

Just take a cell phone and gently swipe it from your hand to read the information stored in the chip or deposit new data. The entire chip's "life cycle", write operations can be more than 100,000 times, the storage capacity of up to 1G.

Now, McCauley has his own business card information in the chip, and the door to his home is also equipped with NFC devices. When he comes home, he doesn't even need a key; he just leans his left hand against the doorknob and then opens the door with a twist.

Besides medical treatment, there is still plenty of room for the development of implanted chips. For example, police can use microchips to track criminals, for locating fugitives, witnesses and missing persons, and if an alarm function is loaded on the chip, the alarm system will be triggered once the object of surveillance enters the restricted territory, a function that can be applied to prevent smuggling.

In the financial sector, the chip can be easily paid with a single brush, and if personal data, such as passport information, is loaded inside, traveling will become easier.