Podcast: How to get famous on YouTube, implant RFID chips, and travel to space

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This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we’re revisiting a few of our favorite guest segments with highlights from some of our most interesting interviews over the past several months. The common thread: Each of these guests inspired us to think differently or bigger in some way. Here they are, in order of… Read More…

Q&A: Why this guy implanted RFID tags in his hands, and what he does with them

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Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Amal Graafstra, who has the distinction of being a “double RFID implantee” — with Radio Frequency ID tags under the skin in each of his hands. Regular GeekWire readers will remember Amal as our correspondent filing dispatches from the recent ToorCamp event on the… Read More…

GeekWire Podcast: Inside the world of an RFID implantee

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Radio Frequency Identification, better known as RFID, is used in everything from livestock to shipping containers. But what about humans? This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk with Amal Graafstra, who has had the distinction of walking around for years with an RFID tag implanted in each of his hands. And… Read More…

RFID company Impinj cancels IPO plans, raises $21 million

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Impinj has raised an additional $21 million in venture capital financing, money that president and CEO William T. Colleran said will allow it to better serve customers “in the dynamic RFID market.” The Seattle company simultaneously withdrew its IPO filing with the SEC, cutting short plans to go public. Impinj had first filed to go public… Read More…