Hi, I’m Amal… just a regular guy from Washington State, USA with a rather odd name for a 6’4″ blond Dutch/Norwegian guy. I have an entrepreneurial spirit and a penchant for the wonders of science, technology, and the oddities the universe has to offer. I love the beauty of fractals, the wonder of paired particles, […]
I got a mention in the RFID Gazette DIY project post (pdf) today and thought about Kevin Warwick’s uber-cool cyborg implants. The man was one of the first to implant an RFID transponder under his skin (not the first, but pretty close), and he stepped it up a notch by injecting an array of 100 […]
I did a 5 minute interview with CBC Radio program The Current about RFID. Thought it was going to be an interesting interview about privacy, but they totally cut out everything except for the very basic details about the implant itself. The full RFID segment, which includes Canada’s privacy commissioner and a guy selling RFID, […]
I’ve been trying to track down video dubs and clips from various news segments I’ve been on. It’s either really hard to get the media to respond to you once they’ve used you up, or it’s really expensive to purchase the clips from a news monitor. Kinda lame if you ask me, but I’ve ordered […]
I just got back from Seattle Mind Camp 2.0, an amazing un-conference style gathering where chaos rules supreme and all-night werewolf sessions rage. I hosted a session about RFID, implants, security, and privacy. There were so many creative brainy types I couldn’t stop there. I scheduled another get-together with a few of them down in […]
I’m so stoked I got to be a part of the first ever Maker Faire down in San Mateo, CA! Too bad I could only stay for the first day. It was amazing! The event was an amazing display of people and their ingenuity, and I vowed if I ever had the opportunity to return […]
After a whole lot of BS, I was able to get an x-ray of my hands taken. What I can’t believe is just how insane the medical industry has become that I can’t walk into a radiology office and pay them cash to take an x-ray of me. The radiologist is performing a service, they […]
Went on the KZOK Bob Rivers show to implant Bob live on-air. It was quite a fun show to do. Click to listen
Well, at 1:00am the good people from Good Morning America knocked on Jenny’s apartment door up in Vancouver BC. They then went about the business of converting her tiny apartment into a live satellite feed studio. Cameras, lights, and a 1000 foot umbilical cord running down 11 flights of stairs to a giant satellite truck […]
