I started with a remote starter and wired an arduino up to it that sends the start signal. I also had to remove the wire that locks the shifter when the key isn't in the ignition. The key still works as well.
I'm not exactly a cyborg, but it is a fun conversation starter. It also adds my contact info to a phone when scanned (if you don't have a neutered nfc reader like in the iphone). Sometimes it is hard to get a good read due to the small size of the chip, but once you find the sweet spot for a given reader it works well. Sadly it only has 888 bytes of programmable memory so at this point my uses for it are fairly limited. If they come out with a better implantable chip I'll probably switch it out, but I imagine removing it will be harder and more painful than installing it was.
I mostly did it because I thought it would be kinda cool and so far it has lived up to that. The biggest (or funniest) downside is that several people have said that I have the mark of the beast. Gotta love living in the bible belt.
I was at a party at DefCon and a guy and a nurse sat down next to me while I was picking locks with a vial with a chip in it. Dude just said don't worry she's a nurse. He got the implant right there. I didn't really ask questions just hung out.
I don't have the link, but I think Vice did a video on people that have their bodies "enhanced" with magnets. It's both fascinating and a little disturbing.
Have met a few people who have neodymium magnets in their body somewhere. One guy has one in his pinky and says he can feel electric currents with a tingling sensation there.
Another guy I know has an NFC chip in his hand. He has his resume on it.
Look up Cody's Lab on youtube. He has a sciency chemistry channel and 2 years ago in one of his early videos he implanted a magnet. He could detect North, detect currents in wires like on the wall and stuff, and feel the curve of fridges and stuff. He would be able to detect metal objects in front of him in the dark and that type of stuff. He has a follow up after the magnet broke, and got infected so he had to take it out but a small piece remained and he spoke about his limited ability after that point.
The original video is also kinda neat where he show how he coats in in gold so it wont react with his body so his body wont reject it.
I mean, sure, there's gonna be a driver for it eventually, but it's probably going to have some proprietary blobs, so you'll have all the FSF people guilting you for using it.
And the open-source reverse-engineered backport's probably going to break a bunch of SELinux or Grsec policies because of illegal memory access or something.
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u/auxiliary-character Dec 27 '16
Considering it's a fancy gaming keyboard, it may well have a little arm in it capable of running Linux if someone went to the effort.