I saw this video the same day I found Lepht’s blog, and it really cemented my interest in the scene. I’m jealous that you were there in person for it!
July 2011: I implanted a magnet with Sugru coating in the back of my hand because a local piercing/tattoo shop wouldn’t implant it in my fingertip and I didn’t have the proper tools and materials to do it myself.
Fast forward to November 2013… I read an e-mail sent by Amal Graafstra to my hackerspace, who launched a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo for the xNT. I remembered his name from Lepht’s talk, so I backed the crowdfunding campaign.
The package containing the xNT and PN532 arrived June 3rd, 2014. Implanted it myself on June 5th.
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Is it still there? My understanding was that Sugru wasn’t such an inert material.
Yes, it’s still there, still looks the same as it did when it first healed.
Interesting… Has it lost any of its magnetic strength? I’ve read that rare earth magnets tend to lose their oomph over time.
well that’s pretty awesome!
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Lucky we “know” you @adiev , otherwise you would probably have had your awesome comic strip firmly placed in the Microchiped or frequencies, mindreading, 24/7 followed or watched thread 
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oh yeah, especially without context! i could totally imagine someone feeling mild pressure at that spot from stuffy sinuses and somehow jumping to that conclusion.
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This speaks volumes about the power of “exposure theory”. Marketing has known this a long time, but it’s the same idea behind the strange experience of learning a new word (or thing) and suddenly hearing it everywhere… the mind filters a lot out but doesn’t necessarily ignore what it filters. You pay attention to what you know and what interests you, but other stuff not so much… but basically the more you hear about a thing and seemingly ignore it, the more your brain becomes familiar with it… until finally the day your conscious mind deems that thing important enough to run through the 'ol frontal cortex, you will have an unquestionable and measurable increase in affinity toward that thing… it becomes less scary… more familiar… and your reaction is more favorable than if you had truly never heard about it before.
I find this to be true of human chip implants. I’ve been in the media nearly constantly since 2005… so people were constantly being exposed to the idea, even if they ignored it. Now the media coverage of chip implants has expanded well beyond me… but for the first 10 years or so, general social reactions from random strangers went from visceral repulsion to much more benign “no thanks” and even “whoa cool”… but the point is, you were exposed to the idea enough that it invaded your dreams… now that’s friggen cool!
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The biohack.me pages, back in the early days. I revisited it every year or so - mainly to see if the M31’s were around, and eventually fell into the NFC stuff with a DT xNT. Followed DT and VivoKey, got into the beta for the Apex Flex, and expressed an interest in writing for JavaCard. Ended up writing some apps, including VivoKey’s Tesla-compatible app (that was a fun few booze-fuelled nights) and the work moved into other aspects of the VivoKey ecosystem.
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I also love drunkgeneering
This. I’ve got a bottle of Jameson for next week (finally able to take my leave).
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At my hackerspace the participants call it “code elixir”
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Big fan of Deviant Ollam, and I watched one of his defcon talks where he talked a lot about his implants. I thought they were cool, but not really useful. And I’d have to get 2 in order to cover LF and HF.
Then I watched the Modern Rogue episode with Deviant Ollam where the implants were featured pretty heavily. I checked out DT again and saw the NeXT covered both frequencies in 1! Then I saw that DT accept bitcoin and instantly ordered the NeXT deluxe kit.
I’m not really a body mod person, but I’m super into tech. This decision was more based on tech uses rather than any sort of body mod/transhumanism.
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I saw something about it in a newspaper and then found this video searched for the bioteq implants but wasn’t happy with the technical data provided for them.
Then I found dangerous things and got my NExT which was way better anyway.
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This video popped into my recommended feen on youtube, and I watched it, interested. This made me interested in other implants that were less invasive and I came across the DT xnt chip. I did not really know what it did, but I knew I wanted one and came here to ask about it. People then recommended the NExT chip instead, and here I am.
God I put them in the same category as andy Warhol, “Crazy batshit and yet admirable”
Lepht has done some really dumb shit and still has, but if it wasn’t for them saying “sure ill let you put a whole ass ROUTER BOARD into me” they most likely would not have made the raspberry pi 0 versions like a week or so later if lepht hadn’t done the original.
someone has to be the crazy of the crazies.
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Sometime in 2018 I did a Google search for “how to get superpowers” out of pure boredom.
Wasn’t expecting anything but memes, clickbait articles and maybe some pseudoscience/religious ramblings, but I came across the subject of biohacking and grinders.
Guess you can say since then I’ve just slid down the rabbit hole… this year, 2020, started looking into getting my first implant (from DT, of course). Intending to do so within the next few months.
Also backed the Sentero campaign this year. Of course, that’s a wearable, but will definitely be a great utility to me specifically, and still falls under the biohacking umbrella.
So excited for what else is to come!
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Magnets have always been a curiosity for me. I think it was around 2015 or so when I heard about people implanting magnets in their finger tips and be able to feel magnetic fields. After a bunch of research I decided against getting one because of the coating issues people have had with them. That was until I heard about the xG3. From there I just had to get comfortable with the idea of putting something under my skin with a gigantic needle.
It wasn’t until I saw the titan campaign that I created an account here and found a peircer in my area that could do the installs for me. The Titan seems like a dream come true for me. I’m really looking forward to it.
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I was first introduced to NFC implants in 2015 when I found out that Android phones could be unlocked over NFC way back, as I was getting my first ever smartphone (rip NFC smart lock). The tutorials all suggest NFC rings / nail stickers, but I went down the rabbit hole and found the implants / DT.
Every so often I’d check what was happening here or at biobiohack.me, finding magnets and Apex, both of which piqued my interest, however my lack of income and age prevented me from getting anything, in addition to the issues with safety and accessibility.
Five years after I first found out about biohacking, I’m an adult with a source of income, who ordered a Titan in the last 24 hours of the campaign as my first implant 
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