In March 2016 I took Dangerous Things to CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, then one of the largest technology fairs in the world. We offered implant "Happy Hour" sessions where attendees could get a chip installed on the spot, and CNBC reported that sixteen people had chips implanted on the first day of the fair alone. Their headline made the pitch better than any of ours: "Lost your keys? Just inject a chip into your hand."
I also gave CNBC the daily-life inventory that answers the inevitable "but why": my implants get me into my house and my car, start the car, log me into my computer, and start my motorcycle. When a keyring does all that from inside your hand, sixteen volunteers on day one starts to make sense.
Live demonstration: Cyborgs and the Rise of Biohacking
On March 16 I shared the CeBIT Global Conferences stage with Dr. Patrick Kramer, the Hamburg biohacker behind DIGIWELL, for a session billed as a live demonstration: "Cyborgs and the Rise of Biohacking."
TechLounge, day four
On the fair's fourth day I sat down for a twenty-one-minute conversation in the TechLounge interview series about Dangerous Things and where all of this was headed.
CeBIT Global Conferences interview
The conference team also recorded a short interview on March 15: the whole subject in two and a half minutes, for the pressed-for-time.