A Swedish company has implanted microchips into its staff

A Swedish company has developed a microchip and has implanted the chips into its staff, it has been revealed.

The chips allows staff to use the photocopier, open security doors and even pay for their lunch.

The plan is eventually for all of the 700 employees from the Epicenter block in Stockholm to have the chips implanted into the back of their hands. The chips use radio-frequency identification (RFID) and store personal security information which can be transmitted over short distances to special receivers.

Those who have the chip implanted have been promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the staff food cafe with a touch of a hand.

The RFID chip allows staff to open doors using their hands

Commenting on the development, Hannes Sjoblad, the chief disruption officer at the Swedish bio-hacking group BioNyfiken, said in an interview with the Times: “We already interact with with technology all the time. Today it’s a bit messy – we need pin codes and passwords – wouldn’t it be easy to just touch with your  hand?

“We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped – the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip.”

In 1999 Professor Kevin Warwick, of Reading University, had a chip implanted into his nervous system and was able to control a robot arm – developed by his colleague Dr Peter Kyberd – using thought power.

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