Fast Company Writer and Producer John Converse Townsend got microchipped back in October 2017. He's now had the smart chip inside his body for three months and explains the capabilities and opportunity behind this new technology.
"It's been fun," says Townsend. "I do have it programmed currently to call my girlfriend." Townsend explains he can tap his phone to the chip to then make a phone call. In the future he says the chip could be used to make mobile payments.
The chip can be compared to the size of a Basmati rice grain. Townsend got the idea to test out a microchip after interviewing Wisconsin-based Three Square Market who has offered to microchip their employees.
Roger Cheng, executive editor of CNET, joined Cheddar News to discuss a Semafor report that Microsoft is in negotiations to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, parent company of ChatGPT.
Laurin Hahn, co-founder and CEO, and Torsten Keidel, CFO, both of German-based Sono Motors, joined Cheddar News to discuss the electric vehicle that the company is developing.
A representative of Baracoda Daily Healthtech demonstrates the Baracoda mirror technology, which gives the user feedback on how to brush their teeth, during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 5, 2023. (
