Life With Big Brother.........
Human or Animal, PositiveID Has an Implantable Microchip for You
By Jim Edwards | September 17, 2010
Two months ago, PositiveID (PSID) said it was giving up on its
implantable radio-frequency medical records microchip, and conspiracy
theorists everywhere breathed a sigh of relief: Previously, the only
market PositiveID had found for the chip was a group of Alzheimer’s
patients in Florida who may not have consented to being implanted.
Indeed, on Sept. 8, PositiveID sold its Health Link business — the
product that linked your implanted RFID chip to your online medical
records — to “Health Plexus LLC” for $1 million. CEO Scott Silverman
described it as “a non-core asset.” (Oddly, Google cannot find a
company named Health Plexus LLC on the web. Maybe it’s Plexus Health, a
medical billing company. Or Health Plexus India, which operates
clinics. Or HealthPlexus.net, a web site for geriatric physicians.)
But don’t worry too much about that, for I have good news, dystopia
lovers! PositiveID — formerly known as VeriChip – just announced a
partnership with Siemens (SI) that may yet put PSID back in the
business of persuading us all to carry microchips under our skin. The
purpose of their deal is as creepy-sounding as you’d expect:
… to share intellectual property related to identifying a patient’s
medical implant by using a radio frequency identification (RFID)
microchip inserted into the body.
The intended focus of the potential applications will be designed
to improve disease management and general health through the effortless
identification of implantable medical devices within the human body.
At the moment, the agreement is merely an intellectual property sharing
pact with no stated terms and no specific goal. While microchip
implants can do lots of things — PSID markets one to monitor blood
glucose in diabetics — the Siemens deal nonetheless sounds a lot like
the old health Link/VeriChip business that was just acquired by “Health
Plexus LLC.”
Now put all that together with today’s press release: PositiveID
acquired is trying to acuire Digital Angel, a company that makes RFID
chip implants to help farmers identify their animals. Animals. Humans.
Whatever. It’s all good at PSID.
Related Link:
World Report-1 - Mark of The Beast Technologies
http://www3.telus.net/thegoodnews/report-1.htm