And in the realm of things I’d be too terrified to do for myself… I give you do-it-yourself-implants.

Zoe Quinn is an indie developer who makes experimental games like Depression Quest. She’s also very fond of an almost specific kind of body modification — the kind that might turn her into a real-world cyborg. Along with having implanted a magnet in her left ring finger  that allows her to feel magnetic fields and wires as well as pick up select metal objects; Kotaku reports that Quinn is now the proud owner of an NTAG216 chip implant (also in her left hand).

And yes… She did it herself…

The chip allows Quinn to do whatever she programs it to, including unlocking her phone and transferring data to it. She even plans to write some apps for it in the future. But! In the meantime, she’s done something else that’s pretty cool. She’s using it to pass around Steam codes for the cyberpunk role-playing game, Deus Ex.

You can see the video she made about the implant above… Just be warned that about 4 minutes in she does show you how she did it. Don’t worry, she’ll warn you before getting into the painful part.

Just a note: My opening sentence isn’t judging Quinn for her self-done modification. It’s me saying I’m too chicken to do anything like that. I’d be horribly afraid I’d botch it.

  • Zachary Reidling

    I think this is pretty cool. The majority of people will cry this is the start of the “mark of the beast” rofl.

    • Trollbelly

      AHHH THE MARK OF THE BEAST HATH ARRIVED! BURN THE WITCH!

    • Anonymous

      Well why I dont believe in god therefore not believing in the mark of the beast, if a RFID chip gets release by the government or any big company/agency you would be an idiot to take it, just saying.

  • Suicideking666

    I instantly thought of the first episode of Futurama, “come on you big baby its just like getting your hand pierced”

  • Brian Day

    JUST WHY ?

  • Effiez

    It barely even works lol

  • F. Ewe

    Uh huh. Like candy from a baby. Yikes

  • https://duckduckgo.com/ sounder

    If these cell phone makers come out with a ring or other jewelry with RF chip to unlock phones they would sell well.

  • Huh?

    why not just stick to the traditional breast implant and then show some pics? sigh.

  • Rivethead

    Integration and interface with living tissue is what makes a cybernetic organism. All this girl did was slam a chip and a magnet under her skin. The RFID chip isn’t integrated; it’s doing exactly what it was meant to do, and doesn’t need to be subcutaneously positioned to do so. You could dangle it from an earring or shove it up your- never mind. The magnet doesn’t allow her to “feel” magnetic fields any more than a person who wraps a magnet in duct tape at the tip of their finger. The magnet only permits her to feel the difference between its attraction to objects and the effort she exerts against it. Stop sensationalizing mundane crap.

    • SlashAdams

      Actually, if you look in to it taping a magnet to your finger give you no where near the same sensations as implanting one. I want to do it myself although I’m too squeamish to do so.

      • Rivethead

        Perhaps. I’d like to know your source. Regardless, it still doesn’t allow her to “feel” or “sense” magnetic fields in the way this article describes.

        • Tath

          It actually does, I recommend you look up neodymium magnet implants

          • Rivethead

            No, it doesn’t. Either you don’t know how the human nervous system works, or you don’t know what a magnet does. She can’t “feel” magnetic fields unless the magnet is somehow integrated to get nervous system. Again, she merely feels the pull through her skin.

            Prove me wrong.

  • bssxfire8

    Just from a practical standpoint I wonder if she’ll have issues going through airport security now?

    • http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers

      I considered that, but I think implant chips don’t contain enough metal to set off the detectors. It’s also becoming increasingly common to chip people. Parents do it with their kids in case of kidnapping and some people living in larger cities have scannable chips that will let them keep all their information on them without having to carry around cards. ID, credit, everything.

  • 1•1•SixallDay

    THIS IS THE START….A FORRUNNER FOR THE MARK…JUST REMEMBER ME WHEN YALL SAY THAT GUY TOLD US SO ……IT BEGINS

    • Michael Murphy

      Only a complete fool believes that the ‘mark’ is a physical mark. The mark pertains to having it in your mind, ‘mentally’, and your actions upon it, by your right hand. Believing otherwise is highly contradictory to the bible.

      • Rivethead

        It’s pretty foolish to believe in it regardless what a book of fiction says.

        • Michael Murphy

          It’s pretty foolish to state that something is a book of fiction without empirical evidence to support that claim. It’s pointless to argue about whether it is fictional or not. It’s a Devil’s Proof — cannot be disproven.

          • Rivethead

            If one going to assert something is real or true, the onus is on the person making the claim to demonstrate it as such. Otherwise, there’s no reason to believe it’s anything other than bullsh!t. It is not my responsibility to prove something to “not be real” nor can you prove the non-existence of something. Even 4th graders understand this. You can, however, prove something to exist. Can you prove any of your claims? Otherwise they’re bullsh!t, too.

            But if you need dis-proof, I’ll provide it for you. I’ll even permit you to select the criteria under which god and satan are proven to not exist. All you have to do is provide me with the same method you would use to prove allah, vampires, santa clause, odin, dragons, fairies, the tooth fairy, ghosts, oni, trolls, anubis, and magic genies do not exist. Not all of them, mind you. Just one.
            Or are you going to claim they can’t be dis-proven so they must be real?

            I’ll be waiting patiently. Until then, all supernatural claims of the bible are fiction until proven otherwise.

  • Dave

    This is indeed a pointless exercise but like its already been mentioned its the start of the desensitization of the chip…..in this case the poor girl in question came across far to casual about volunteering to inject a foreign body under her skin that reminds me of how these things are slowly pushed onto people ie “my mates have one and my Dog has one” …etc etc LOL “well everyone else is jumping off the cliff so naturally as everyone is “thinking” for themselves under the false banner of social acceptance (cool to jump off the cliff) then I may as well jump doing a summersault……. saying that the poor girl already has metal hanging from her face and heaven forbid anyone see her natural hair colour…..”we are all slow on the uptake, nature is so uncool we must become cyborg zombie twitter slaves which is much much better”……I will pass thank you!

    • Martin Øverby

      …what?

    • xalener

      The beginning of Purity First, right here before your very eyes.

      As crazy as this girl is, I welcome and embrace a future of post humans. When we’ve engineered a better arm, I want that arm.

  • TLOKain

    All i keep picturing is the Reggie GIF/Meme saying “Whats wrong with you?”

  • WellWisher

    Idiot.

  • Lord of Nightmares

    i’d like to know if she have troubles due to signal interferences.i admire her because she had the gut to try on herself a chip implant.I’d like to try it but unfortunately i don’t have the knowledge and the chip to try

  • ryan phillips

    Sounds like a good way to get a disease.

  • Miles Edgeworth

    this shows:how to die slowy by implating things at your corpse

    • Rivethead

      Do you have even a shred of justification to support your comment? By your logic, all surgical implants also kill people slowly.

  • Lyndon Johnson

    mark of the beast. only an idiot follows these obviously corporate sponsored schemes to convince the population to accept something that can be so easily manipulated or hacked to devastating results

    • Michael Murphy

      You may want to go read your bible if you are so gullible that you believe a computer chip implant has anything to do with the mark of the beast — only complete fools believe that nonsense. The mark of the beast only pertains to having it in your mind, mentally, and your actions upon it, by your right hand. If it was a literal physical mark, it would make the whole bible a laughing stock since it’s contradictory.

      Also, an embedded SoC is not ‘easily manipulated’ by anyone other than the user. Your Windows PC might be ‘easily manipulated’ but an embedded SoC running Linux is not. It can’t have ‘devastating results’ either since it’s just a tiny SoC that’s not capable of much anyway.

  • Bill

    This is pure insanity! Big risk with very little payoff I’d say.