{"id":5929,"date":"2017-08-22T18:52:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2017-08-22T18:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:52:56","slug":"not-just-for-pets-could-there-be-a-place-for-microchips-in-the-university-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/08\/22\/not-just-for-pets-could-there-be-a-place-for-microchips-in-the-university-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just for pets &#8211; could there be a place for microchips in the University of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January we got a new cat.\u00a0 As a result of having night time feline visitors we decided to invest in a cat flap which scans the cat&#8217;s microchip and allows it to enter the house.\u00a0 Just as you check out your goods in the supermarket the cat can check in!\u00a0 I was unsure to start with but I must say this thing is one of the best purchases I have ever made, although checking in at a pricey \u00a389!<\/p>\n<p>I have always been a fan of microchips and used to think, perhaps controversially,\u00a0that I would quite like to have one implanted in my own brain to make me a little bit cleverer!!<\/p>\n<p>Then\u00a0recently on the news I actually heard about people being implanted with microchips.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chip design giant ARM has teamed up with US researchers on a project to develop chips that can be implanted in the human brain,\u00a0to help brain injury patients:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-39934506\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-39934506<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow (yes, that&#8217;s his legal name) says he had\u00a0his chip\u00a0put under his skin by a professional piercer.\u00a0 It enables him to\u00a0access public transport: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/article\/40429477\/this-man-had-the-chip-from-his-travel-card-implanted-under-his-skin\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/article\/40429477\/this-man-had-the-chip-from-his-travel-card-implanted-under-his-skin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To watch an interesting video visit:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/technology-39982247\/could-microchip-tagging-help-in-daily-life\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/technology-39982247\/could-microchip-tagging-help-in-daily-life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But how ethical is this? Is it safe or potentially something which could be open to abuse?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think microchip implants could assist with learning?\u00a0 Could there be a place for them\u00a0in the university of the future?<\/p>\n<p>I think possibly, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January we got a new cat.\u00a0 As a result of having night time feline visitors we decided to invest in a cat flap which scans the cat&#8217;s microchip and allows it to enter the house.\u00a0 Just as you check out your goods in the supermarket the cat can check in!\u00a0 I was unsure to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/08\/22\/not-just-for-pets-could-there-be-a-place-for-microchips-in-the-university-of-the-future\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Not just for pets &#8211; could there be a place for microchips in the University of the future?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":5931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,72],"class_list":["post-5929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-students","tag-tel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}