Killer Microchip

Wowzers... the future has arrived:

You can run, but you cannot hide ... and if you try, one push of a button will cause a lethal poison to immediately begin flowing through your body.

That's the Orwellian future a Saudi inventor was seeking to bring to Germany until that nation's patent office announced last week it was rejecting his request to patent what has been dubbed the "Killer Chip."

Patent or no patent, this chip is already in the works.


The tiny semiconductor device is intended to be surgically implanted or injected into the body, according to the patent application, for the purpose of tracking visitors from other nations by global-positioning satellites and preventing them from overstaying their visas.

The device would emit encrypted radio waves that would be picked up by satellites and "used to track fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don't return home from pilgrimages," Sweden's The Local reported.

The application included a request to patent a model B of the device that could release poison to "eliminate" the individual if he or she became a security risk.

"I apply for these reasons and for reasons of state security and the security of citizens," the statement reads.

The "security of citizens"? That has go to be one of the most tongue-in-cheek statements in the history of the world.

Any visit to a doctors office or hospital could see this thing injected into your body with or without your knowledge if you needed a shot for anything.

Better yet, it could be injected at birth.

Or ultimately, the law of the land.

Anybody, with some basic knowledge and equipment, could uncover your particular chip code, transmit the command to release the poison and do you in... completely free of risk.

What a world is coming to us all.