In early 2009, Make: television, the public-television series from MAKE magazine, Twin Cities Public Television, and American Public Television, featured my implants in Episode 9, "Computer Music Making & Personal Flight Recorder." My segment ran in the episode's Maker Channel slot, which the listings billed as "an RFID reader implanted in a human hand." That would be quite a trick: the implanted part is the tag; the reader stays outside.
The production process was humbling. The MAKE folks didn't send a crew; they asked me to shoot my own clips: sit there, address the camera directly, and answer phantom questions nobody was asking. I've done tons of interviews, but this was hard, and I concluded at the time that I'll never be any kind of show host. I bundled up the talking-head takes with a pile of b-roll: getting into an old apartment building in Vancouver, BC, unlocking my trusty VW GTI, and starting my zippy '05 Hayabusa with a wave of the hand. They chopped together the horrible mess I sent them, and edited, the clips looked brilliant.
The motorcycle footage pulled double duty. That keyless-ignition build (a smart reader and relays wired in parallel with the key) started life as a chapter in RFID Toys, so the book got a second lap on public television.