The man, who calls himself a "bio-hacker", decided on a painful operation, which he underwent without anesthesia and the help of a doctor, in order to install a huge electronic chip in his hand.
Tim Cannon, a Pittsburgh-based software engineer, was implanted with a chip that would monitor his body temperature. The device communicates with the Android tablet via a Bluetooth wireless connection. It has green flashing lights that can be seen through the skin and can send a message if a man gets a fever.
Cannon, who describes himself as a "do-it-yourself cyborg", works for Grindhouse Wetware, a company focused on increasing the number of safe and affordable technologies used by humanity.
The man claims to be the first person to have such a device implanted into his body. He insists that he did it in order to improve himself.
Cannon became interested in electronic body modifications in order to gain immortality. In an interview with YouTube channel MotherboardTV, he said: “I want to live to be a thousand years old. I don't want to die. I don’t understand why anyone wants this.”
The procedure, in which a chip the size of a deck of cards was implanted in the man's left forearm, was performed by body modification artist and tattoo artist Steve Haworth without anesthesia. Haworth had to perform the procedure without anesthesia because he does not have a medical license as a surgeon, which means that the law prohibits him from using anesthesia. To dull the pain, the master used ice.
According to Cannon, the procedure was extremely painful, and after its completion, his body itself went into "trauma mode."