This Dutch cyborg is already full of implants, but it's never enough! We follow him through his surgery in the next attempt to upgrade his body.
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00:00My name is Patrick Pauwman. I'm 33 years old. At the moment I have 14 implants in total.
00:11I have 5 magnetic implants and 9 RFID tag implants. So yeah, I consider myself a cyborg.
00:26The new RFID tag that I'm getting has an LED. So when it's near a reader, the LED will
00:38light up under the skin. I use this RFID NFC tag implant to unlock my smartphone. I also
00:48use it to unlock the front door and apartment door. I use this RFID tag implant to unlock
00:55the car doors. It won't be painful because it's a small procedure. There are not many
01:04nerve endings in the skin. There are many nerve endings in the fingertips. So getting a magnet in
01:12the fingertip, that's painful. First I order a kit of the implant online. I take this package
01:22to a piercing studio. There they put a sterile drape on a clean surface. Then the side is
01:30cleaned with chlorhexidine. You need one hand to lift the skin and you need the other hand
01:37to insert the injection syringe. And while the injection syringe is retracted, then the RFID
01:46tag remains under the skin. And after a while, you'll put a band-aid. RFID stands for Radio
02:05Frequency Identification. There are different frequencies in RFID technology. These are
02:12compatible with NFC, with near-field communication, which is what my smartphone supports,
02:18and also other devices like the electronic door locks I have at home. I also use this implant
02:26to encrypt data, to encrypt emails. All of my implants, they are all passive devices. They
02:36don't contain any batteries, but they do contain a coil. And only when it's near an RFID reader
02:45that's compatible, then the RFID tag becomes active. I have magnet implants in my fingertips.
02:53These magnet implants, they allow me to lift objects. But the main purpose for the magnet
02:59implants is to sense magnetic and electromagnetic fields. I think instead of having wearables,
03:15like a smartwatch or devices like a smartphone, it will evolve to implants.