
[Ed. – She’s a step closer to becoming a motaur!]
Body modifications have become increasingly commonplace in our society, such that we barely raise an eyebrow at someone with full tattoo sleeves or multiple facial piercings. Still, there’s another frontier in body modification that verges on science fiction and involves integrating tech into the human body. The people who do this are known as biohackers. Someone call William Gibson.
Biohacking comes with all kinds of inherent risks, but that didn’t stop software engineer and cosplayer Amie D.D. from taking the plunge with the valet key from her Tesla Model 3 in a process that she completed earlier in August and documented on the website Hackaday. Yeah, you read that right: She worked with a body modification studio in Texas and a gentleman called Pineapple to implant the RFID chip from a Tesla valet key into her forearm.