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My midlife crisis has taken a turn toward consumerism: I did need a watch, and I found a brilliant one from TokyoFlash (mine is the discontinued Jackpot, which you can still find at Overstock.com). TF’s watches are a must for Escape from New York fans, or anyone who likes the feel of a chunky, retro-meets-dystopian [...]

Filed under: Fun, Gadgets, Personal tech | Tagged: Gadgets, japan, tokyo, watches | No Comments »

Journalists “screw up” health story… trust business to fix the problem, says business blogger.

(RFID tags didn’t cause his heart attack. But arphids can make matters worse. Photo: Daubentonia)
from Mark
Widespread reports this week that RFID signals could kill you in the hospital are false, a technology business blogger is claiming.
The blogger, at the technology website ZNDet, [...]

Filed under: Doublespeak, Emergency care, Gadgets, Hardware, Health, Location, Media, Medicine, Personal tech, RFID, Satire, Wearable computing, technology | Tagged: blogs, emf, ethics, healthcare, jama, Journalism, malpractice, medical devices, press, RFID, Science, zdnet, ziff davis | No Comments »

Mainstream reporters helped spread VeriChip “lies,” Spychips author says

(Katherine Albrecht, the world’s most influential opponent to the use of RFID tags for tracking humans, is driving another nail into VeriChip, and its MSM dupes, for promoting subcutaneous chipping. Photo: Anne Hellmond)
from Mark:
I always tell my journalism students that objectivity should not come at the [...]

Filed under: Bioethics, Conspiracies, Doublespeak, Flashmobs, Government, Hardware, Health, Homeland Security, Medicine, Monitoring, Personal tech, Privacy, Propaganda, RFID, Surveillance, Ubiquitous computing, Wearable computing, mark of the beast, technology | Tagged: albrecht, arphids, cancer, disease, Implants, mark of the beast, RFID, spychips, verichip | 4 Comments »