remote-controlled contraceptive microchip you implant under your skin

[phantom power]

By 2018, it may be possible to purchase a contraceptive microchip that you implant under your skin that delivers birth control hormones automatically into your blood stream every day for as long as 16 years. That’s the vision of Microchips, a Massachusetts-based startup formed by MIT researchers who are developing a remote-controlled drug delivery microchip you would implant under your skin near your abdomen (or, if you prefer, your backside region). Without having to go back to a doctor, women would be able to switch birth control hormones on and off at the touch of a button.

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Where things get really interesting is that the same technology could be used to deliver just about any drug, not just birth control hormones. In fact, Microchips calls itself a “programmable drug delivery” company. The first clinical tests of the device delivered hormones to women suffering from osteoporosis. The way the chip works, the hormones are housed inside an impregnable platinum and titanium seal. A single electrical current triggered by the remote control essentially “melts” the seal, enabling the hormone to flow out. In the future, those modules could be loaded up with all sorts of drugs to regulate the human body.

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...the fact that the contraceptive chip is wirelessly controlled by remote raises the specter of all kinds of security risks. If you think the problem of “revenge porn” is only getting worse, what about the future risk of “revenge pregnancy”? Others have warned of the risks of “ovarian hacking” if groups of hackers get their hands on these wireless, remote-controlled devices.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/07/17/this-amazing-remote-controlled-contraceptive-microchip-you-implant-under-your-skin-is-the-future-of-medicine

[LiberalFighter]

1. How about a microchip implanted in the 5 justices

that forces an erection for as long as desired? Like while they are hearing a case or at a restaurant eating? Or pops up while they are on the toilet.

[PumpkinAle]

2. They already have that - proven through them being such dick-heads

with their decisions

[Tetris_Iguana]

3. Revenge pregnancy?!

[DetlefK]

4. How about simply removing the hackable functions?

There exists a prototype for a fuel-cell that creates electricity from blood. It has successfully been implanted in a trial and it generates about enough electricity to supply a pacemaker. And the implant is just a few millimeters thick and a few inches wide.

Imagine the following implant:
- Has a depot of medication that is slowly released.
- Energy for the clock and the steering mechanism is provided by the fuel-cell.
- Manual activation and shutdown by a simple magnetic lever in the implant: You need to hold a strong magnet onto the skin on top of the implant. Depending on how you tilt the magnet, you tilt the lever to ON or to OFF.