this is dangerous things a biohacking
company run out of a garage in Mount
Vernon Washington started by a McGough
strip a pioneer of RFID implants since
the mid-2000s mother would travel to
dangerous things garage headquarters get
a peek at some of amell's new projects
including an exclusive first look at a
never-before-seen prototype the world's
first implant activated smart gun this
is just a gun you buy from the gun store
and what you've added to it is just
implant in your hand and what else and
inside of here there's a reader assembly
and an antenna assembly so when I grip
the weapon that reads the implant and
unlocks a trigger so if I try to pull
the trigger because I have no implant it
theoretically should not fire right
correct and yeah it definitely does not
pull the trigger uh Safety's not on or
anything right so then when you try if I
grab weapon you consider yourself a gun
guy are you kind of only doing this you
know as like a proof of concept from the
biohacking end of things I wouldn't say
I'm a gun enthusiast operated correctly
by you know sane people they're fine but
you know to be able to in the state of
Washington go into the gun store
hand over my license and 15 minutes
later walk out with this you know it's
not not exactly the best system to just
kind of allow people to purchase these
willy-nilly but that's why I think the
smart gun concept is important because
eventually you know we'll be able to
actually control who is able to operate
the weapon once it leaves a store and I
think that's important is there anyone
else doing RFID smart guns stuff they're
doing it with different kinds of
technologies implants or you know this
is as world-first the biggest argument
against safe smart guns is that you know
when you need it then it's not gonna
function correctly you know the
wristbands not gonna be on or not wear
the fingerprint readers not going to
work so you know we're trying to jump
over those hurdles and and solve the
problem in a way that you can't forget
your activation token right you it's
there it's readable by the weapon and it
just it'll work does it run on batteries
yeah there's there's power source inside
so what happens when the battery on the
receiver dies and someone like myself
without an implant picks up the gun and
tries to fire would it work you could
have it do what's called failsafe or
fail secure and in a gun context
failsafe would be the trigger is
unlocked fail secure would mean the
trigger remains locked and there might
even be an option for allowing the owner
to select failsafe or feel secure you
know RF IDs have been around for a while
but here is a new obviously
controversial use Pia it's two old
technologies coming together in a new
way so the next step for amyl is meeting
with gun manufacturers as just a
prototype it's an example of what could
be possible so maybe one day we'll be
working with weapons manufacturers and
and you know taking our brand of smart
gun to the market the assumption is that
the fundamental gun owner is not aligned
with the thought of getting an implant I
mean most most of the time it's you know
people concerned with you know chips
being somehow associated with a
government or government control are
usually pretty enthusiastic gun owners
as well so the the combination of
needing an implant top right your weapon
is probably it might have some
challenges the issue is the fact that a
gun is so rudimentary in its design it's
very simple it's a mechanical device
that is just easy to make and and you
know it's not complex at all so
introducing additional complexity into
the system there's resistance