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Ohm sweet Ohm: Linux versus Vista smart homes

Posted March 11th, 2008 by rmorgan

Can you take the smart home concept a little too far? Jonathan Oxer, a Melbourne-based web application developer and former president of Linux Australia, has had an RFID chip surgically implanted in his forearm to save him from having to carry a door key around.

When he swipes his arm past the RFID reader attached to the front door of his home, the tag in his upper forearm unlocks the door.

“The door to my office also has a home-made RFID reader, so I can unlock the door with a tag, but, unfortunately, this particular one doesn’t work with the tag in my arm,” says Oxer.

Read the whole article here: http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/454AF6C57C0B85A9CC2574050004DC0...