by Tracy R. Walsh
Alexis Madrigal heralds the first animated tattoo:
Anthony Antonellis marked another milestone for the body-hacking movement, implanting an RFID chip encased in glass into his hand. The tiny chip can transmit an animated GIF that he’s stored in it through a tiny antenna. He can swap out the image it carries and transmits, but here’s what he’s currently got in the one kilobyte of memory his implant stores:
Marina Galperina explains further:
The NFC / RFID chip is the size of a grand of sand. It’s equipped with a tiny antenna and encased inside a glass capsule to keep it from being disrupted by its fleshy environment. This chip stores 1KB of data and is readable like a key fob by compatible phones, tablets, card readers and the Arduino microcontroller. … It’s read-only, but changeable when Antonellis decides to upload new works. These could be GIFs, JPGs, Midi files, favicons, [or] ASCII art.
The Dish 