I’ve been really curious lately about the potential of combining advanced laptops with implant tech and NFC biohacking gear. Specifically, I’m wondering if anyone here has experimented with using these laptops alongside implants or NFC devices to create smarter, more integrated setups?
For example, I’m imagining scenarios where AI laptops could help process data directly from implants or interact with biohacking tools in real time—maybe for automation, personal monitoring, or even just pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with wearable tech.
If you’ve tried something like this or have thoughts on whether AI laptops can bring meaningful benefits to biohacking workflows, I’d love to hear about your experiences, challenges, or even ideas for future projects.
Can you explain what you think that might look like? Laptops with effective and practical NFC built in would be a very nice thing since implants like the Apex Flex can operate as a Fido token for authentication. Other than that I’m not sure what exactly you mean by “biohacking workflows”
ah yeah enabling CCID mode so it could be seen by the PC/SC stack… had to download some exe files and run some commands… I had to go through the same thing… too bad the actual laptop was old AF and basically garbage / unusable.
Presumably a laptop with onboard NPU(s). I haven’t actually looked at the benchmarks (and maybe I’m too cynical) but I suspect in a lot of cases it would be more efficient to push things off to beefier hardware somewhere else and the onboard hardware might be more about marketing than usefulness, but they do exist.
I could imagine seeing a box labelled “AI Laptop” on a shelf in a consumer electronics store and having the same reaction. “What the heck is that?” I too would guess either a laptop with a neuromorphic chip, or else that the marketing team decided to market their hardware based on some software that could be run on it again. Like when they market storage drives based on the suspect bloatware that comes on it instead of just clearly labelling it with the specs you’re looking for. And then you get suspicious that they tried to rig it so that it has to run their software specifically (especially if it’s some subscription based cloud software-unnecessarily-as-a-service). Marketing teams turn me away from products more often than they draw me to them.
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Looking it up it seems the term is being used vaguely to mean laptops that are relatively better at running AI, whether that means an NPU or just good GPUs. I agree that pushing the work to a server would be better for heavy tasks, and efficient light ML algorithms don’t need it, which leaves these things in a somewhat awkward in-between niche, but maybe there’s enough of a use case for moderately sized offline models to fill that niche?
pcsc_scan detects reader but reader does not detect yubikey or flex spectrum. Assuming this is a driver issue for now as the NFC reader does not recognize with a serial number in ixni, modprobe, hw-probe, or any other known method.
intel-npu-compiler and intel-npu-driver both compiled with no issues (for AI offloading)
Gave up on linux for now as it seems that the reader will need a deeper dive on the windows side.
