{"id":78109,"date":"2018-04-29T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/i-spent-a-weekend-with-cyborgs-and-now-i-have-an-rfid-implant-i-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with"},"modified":"2018-04-29T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T15:02:44","slug":"i-spent-a-weekend-with-cyborgs-and-now-i-have-an-rfid-implant-i-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/i-spent-a-weekend-with-cyborgs-and-now-i-have-an-rfid-implant-i-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with","title":{"rendered":"I Spent a Weekend With Cyborgs, and Now I Have an RFID Implant I Have No Idea What to Do With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-spent-a-weekend-with-cyborgs-and-now-i-have-an-rfid-implant-i-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Tibbetts prepped for implantation and scrubbed in, methodically sudsing up to his elbows, scraping the dirt from under his fingernails and scouring his hands with a rough brush to render his body sterile before donning a pair of beige latex surgical gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Behind him, a twentysomething tea barista in a<strong> <\/strong>black baseball cap waited pensively, his left ring finger exposed from under a surgical drape, a tourniquet wrapped tightly around it. For months, an implanted magnet had been uncomfortably bulging out of the side of Zac Shannon\u2019s finger. <strong> <\/strong>Tibbetts picked up a scalpel and began cutting, gently scraping away at the<strong> <\/strong>flesh until the incision was deep enough to expose the magnet. With the very steady hands of a practiced surgeon, he pulled out the tiny hunk of metal.<\/p>\n<p>Tibbetts plopped another magnet into the finger, sutured it shut, and removed the tourniquet. The small wound began to gush blood.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/i-spent-a-weekend-with-cyborgs-and-now-i-have-an-rfid-1825470767\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/i-spent-a-weekend-with-cyborgs-and-now-i...1825470767<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Tibbetts prepped for implantation and scrubbed in, methodically sudsing up to his elbows, scraping the dirt from under his fingernails and scouring his hands with a rough brush to render his body sterile before donning a pair of beige latex surgical gloves. Behind him, a twentysomething tea barista in a black baseball cap waited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}