Why People with Brain Implants Are Afraid to Go Through Automatic Doors

Re:Why People with Brain Implants Are Afraid to Go Through A... by astrodust on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:39PM (#14712764)

The theft prevention systems use inductive power to activate the security tags. If this matches the resonant frequency of an implant you could be in trouble.

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Re:Why People with Brain Implants Are Afraid to Go Through A... by wolfgang42 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:20PM (#14713099)

Right, which is precisely why automatic doors are completely irrelevant.

On a related note, here's an interesting and informative video from Applied Science on how these tags work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAm7qAKAXwI

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Re:Why People with Brain Implants Are Afraid to Go Through A... by astrodust on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:36PM (#14713735)

Yeah, automatic doors are generally infra-red or ultrasonic though some of them can spew out a bunch of nasty EMF.

Cable tracing probes are not only good at picking up signals from the trace transmitter, they also amplify other types of EMF. You can hear a ton of noise from a keyboard as it goes through the scan loops. LCDs squeal at their refresh frequency. Automatic door detectors make a ton of noise too.

I'm not sure how close you'd have to be to the detector you'd have to be, but if the resonant frequency matched and you're tall enough to nearly make contact maybe it's a factor here.

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