Applied Digital Solutions, maker of implantable identification chips for humans, is ramping up a new media blitz with the "chipping" of a reporter and unveiling yesterday in London of a new temperature-sensing microchip.

Meanwhile, a June deadline looms for the financially troubled company to pay off a $30 million IBM loan.

Applied Digital Solutions (NASDAQ: ADSX) of West Palm Beach, Fla., maker of the implantable VeriChip, coined the term "getting chipped" as part of a marketing campaign that attracted worldwide coverage. It culminated last May when 8 individuals were chipped.

The VeriChip is an injectable radio-frequency identification chip marketed for human use. It can carry a unique identification number along with other data. In addition, it is wirelessly write-able.

The company invited Angela Swafford, a Miami-based journalist, to get "chipped" while she was working on a VeriChip story for a major media outlet.

Swafford is a science writer whose work has appeared in New Scientist magazine, Astronomy magazine, Discovery, and ABC News. Her story is expected to be released in the near future.

"When it comes to reporting on stories, I like to get as involved as possible in the science behind them," said Swafford. "I have been known to lend my body to science, from participating in NASA hyper-gravity tests, to having my brain scanned by neurologists trying new imaging techniques at MIT. All in the name of exploration of new frontiers ... and of good stories."

She added, "When offered the opportunity to be chipped, it occurred to me that I could tell this story in a unique way. I think the technology is tremendously exciting, with applications that defy our wildest dreams. This chip is quietly heralding a time when humans will literally have technology under the skin."

Meanwhile, in England, mixing getting chipped with publicity has back-fired on famous British professor Kevin Warwick, who has recently been accused of launching a "publicity stunt" in the "worst possible taste."

The announcement came on the heels of the tragic deaths of two abducted British girls.

An intermediary firm began handling requests from media who wanted to interview Warwick, dubbed "Captain Cyborg," charging reporters a rate of $125 for ten minutes of talk time.

WorldNetDaily contacted Warwick asking for proof the GPS implant existed, but received no response. In addition, Jackie Fenn, vice president of Emerging Technologies and a research fellow with Gartner Research, told WND she could not obtain verification the implant exists.

When no one could verify the existence of such a device, the merciless headlines read, "Cap Cyborg is a Media Tart. True." Critics charged him with fueling hysteria following the deaths of the girls and with manipulating the fears of parents.

The respected online tech-journal the Register called him a "tedious self-publicist" who was essentially providing "less critical elements of the press with a never-ending stream of stupid stories."

John Lettice, of the Register noted, "And by pushing positive aspects of tagging, even years before it's actually feasible, they're softening public opinion up for the days when it can be widespread, and when its application can be more sinister."

Warwick had called for an urgent government debate on the issue, and said government ministers should consider implants for all children.

"This is why we need the debate to take place," he said. "In the future, it may be that only the police have the authority to allow the system to be activated. But, as things stand, parents can have that right themselves."

The suggestion that only police, and not parents, might have control of such a future system is sure to raise hackles in England, where there has been a steady stream of police officers arrested on child-porn charges.

In 1999, Applied Digital announced they had obtained the patent rights to a GPS implant. The microchip was described as a syringe-injectable implant that was "small enough to be implanted in a child" and could be "continuously tracked by GPS."

Four years later, the implant has yet to make it to market, but the company discussed the need for GPS implants during last year's child kidnapping crises. Jackie Fenn of Gartner notes Applied Digital has told her they are on track for bringing a GPS implant to market.

To date, only intelligence agency uses of GPS implants have been reported as being in current use: Time magazine previously reported the Israeli Secret Service was using GPS implant technology in some of its operatives.

About Applied Digital, the Register complained the firm has essentially been busy "punting cattle tags at the hard of thinking."

Meanwhile, yesterday and today Applied Digital was scheduled to make two presentations at the IDTechEx "Smart Tagging in Healthcare" conference in London.

IDTechEx refers to the London conference as the "first major" conference devoted to the potential health-care benefits of smart tagging technologies. As described by IDTechEx, the conference is intended to help attendees "learn how smart labels can save lives, reduce errors, improve health, reduce costs and lead to new services."

Dr. Richard Seelig of Applied will be speaking about possible medical applications of the VeriChip, and will provide the first-ever public demonstration of the company's new temperature-sensing microchip technology, marketed, patented and first announced by Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC) in February 2003.

This new Radio Frequency Identification microchip has similar dimensions and performance characteristics to VeriChip, but it can also obtain and transmit body-temperature data.

Dubbed "Bio-Thermo" the microchip previously was used for pets, livestock and other animals. The information on the chip can be retrieved with a handheld scanner or by the animal passing through a special portal.

The London conference will mark the company's shift from marketing the chip for animals to also marketing it for human use.

Currently, there is a wide variety of biosensors approaching commercial viability.

Biosensors now are being developed to detect everything from the first chemical signature of cancer to the presence of anthrax, and advances in fields such as nanotechnology, microelectronics and molecular diagnostics have paved the way.

As previously reported by WND, Dr. Peter Zhou had commented in 2000 that he was "very interested" in pursuing the company's implantable technology as a form of a universal health-care identifier, along the lines of what former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala proposed under the Clinton administration.

Applied says its new BioTherm chip has applications relevant to chemotherapy-treatment management, chronic-infection monitoring, organ transplantation treatment management, infertility management, postoperative monitoring, critical-care monitoring, medication monitoring and response to treatment evaluation.

The health-care tagging conference comes at a time where there is a surge of industry interest in many applications of Radio Frequency Identification chip tagging.

Founded in 1999, the Auto-ID Center is a cutting-edge partnership between more than 87 global companies and three of the world's leading research universities: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S., the University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Together they are creating the standards and assembling the building blocks needed to create what they call an "Internet of things."

The Center proposes an "intelligent infrastructure" that allows physical objects to communicate with one another. This infrastructure would consist of low-cost electronic tags, unique object identification numbers, common networking services and standardized protocols and languages.

The Center is designing, building and testing the components of such a system, with a view to deploying a global infrastructure – a layer on top of the Internet – that will make it possible for computers to identify any object anywhere in the world instantly.

"Electronic tags when coupled to a reader network allow continuous tracking and identification of physical objects. Reader arrays have been fabricated and integrated in floor tiles, carpeting, shelf paper, cabinets and appliances. Similar to cellular phone grids, the reader network may provide seamless and continuous communication to tagged objects," says Auto-ID Center co-director David Brock.

It's commonly accepted the proposed architecture has the potential to revolutionize supply chain, logistics and inventory.

The Center foresees: "No more inventory counts. No more lost or misdirected shipments. No more guessing how much material is in the supply chain – or how much product is on the store shelves."

Although its first applications are focused on supply-chain management, the concept of seamlessly communicating physical objects has many applications in other areas, such as health care.

The ability to provide continuity of care, continuous patient monitoring, shared yet secure medical records, valid and accurate medical dosages, medical equipment tracking and improved information display and communication are some of the propositions enabled by the technology.

In its full implementation, the Auto-ID technology is said to have the potential to greatly reduce costs while increasing the reliability and effectiveness of human health care.

Meanwhile, Applied Digital continues to face financial struggles, even in the wake of worldwide press coverage.

Under a new forbearance agreement reached with creditor IBM, the financially struggling Applied Digital gained the right to buy back its existing indebtedness from IBM Credit with a one-time payment, on or before June 30, of $30 million. If this payment is made, Applied Digital would satisfy its full obligation to IBM Credit, according to the company.

For 2002, Applied has posted a net loss of $112.5 million on revenues of $99.6 million, according to the latest SEC filing. The loss is significantly lower than 2001's net loss of $215.6 million, but the company's losses for the past three years total $443.3 million.

Sherrie Gossett is a Florida-based researcher and writer, formerly with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and a contributing reporter to WorldNetDaily.

Mark of the Beast

In 1968, Dr. Carl Sanders (an honorary title granted by the Hong Kong Government), an electronics engineer, headed a research group of more than 100 scientists, engineers, and medical doctors involving many institutions stretching from San Jose to Boston Medical Center. The group's project was to find a microchip that could be implanted beneath the skin, which would allow the government to quickly identify and locate the person who has the chip on the body. The project was funded partly by the U.S. Government and partly by private corporations among which were Motorola and General Electric.

His involvement in this group was by accident as the original goal of the group had been to design biotech devices that could help solve medical problems. For instance, the group developed the Rambo chip that amplifies the adrenaline flow in the body. Another device was to stop the output of the pituitary gland that causes the flow of estrogen. Still another chip was designed to produce electricity in certain strategic places in the body to induce behavior changes. The use of this chip can be called electronic acupuncture. But the original project did not work out and the goal was subsequently changed to developing an identification chip.

As head of the project, Dr. Sanders attended 17 meetings of the One-World Government promoters in Brussels and Luxembourg. Among the attendants of these meetings were Henry Kissinger, Bob Gates, and representatives of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The participants raised the question that the world now has too large a population (5 billion) to control. A means to control people must be found. They said: "But we can't control them if we can't identify them."

The order coming from the One-World Government crowd to Dr. Sanders' research group was to find the microchip that would help the job of controlling people on a worldwide scale.

After 20 years of developing, the group perfected a chip so small that it can go through the hypodermic needle. It size is 0.75mm in diameter and 7mm in length. It is smaller than a grain of rice and can be injected into body using the hypodermic needle. The chip has 250,000 components and runs on lithium battery. The battery has to be recharged through a recharging circuit using the body temperature. The group found that two places where body temperature changes fastest are the area on the forehead below the hairline and the area on the back of the hand. Thus, the chip will be implanted on the body in either of these two places that have been prophesied in the book of Apocalypse two thousand years ago.

The chip contains enormous amount of data on each person, including:

name and age
address
picture of the face of the person
finger prints including thumb prints
occupation
family history
income tax records
social security information such as social security number plus an international extra digit. The extra digit indicates that the Anti-Christ will divide the world into 10 regions governed by 10 administrators of the Anti-Christ.
- Apocalypse 17: 12 "And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have not received the kingdom as yet, but they will receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast.
- 17: 13 "These have one purpose, and their power and authority they give to the beast.
- 17: 14 "These will fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is the Lord of Lords, and the King of kings, and they who are with him, called, chosen, and faithful."
status of social benefits such as amount of pension funds, veteran benefits received

You can't cut it out of one man and put it into another: It won't work because they have your picture and your biometric data such as your thumb prints on it.

The microchip has 240 functions containing 9 categories of information with many subcategories.

The chip has a transmitter which transmits a unique and distinctive signal on the L-band (1,000 megahertz) that the controller can pick up through a satellite. The person who has the chip on the body can be located within 10 feet of where he or she stands. There are now 23 low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites that can read a postage stamp laying on a tennis court. They can read our license plate every 19 minutes.

The problem with lithium battery is that it will cause a sore or a boil that cannot heal. This is confirmed by a doctor at Boston Medical Center when Dr. Sanders asked him about the side-effect of lithium in the body. Again, this is prophesied in the book of Apocalypse.

Apocalypse 16:1 "And I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, 'Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth.'"
16: 2 " And the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a sore and grievous wound was made upon the men who have the mark of the beast, and upon those who worshipped his image."

The microchip has sufficient power to invade our home privacy and screen us and our belongings. Once in a home, we have been screened for holy objects, money, conversation and the like. The television set acts as a receiver for this information and is an interactive eye to maintain surveillance while the microchip is in our home. Once the chip has left, the surveillance stops, but all information has been transmitted. If we have a microchip in our home all the time, we are being monitored continually.

The microchip will be given out on a large scale after the Anti-Christ becomes more visible. The Anti-Christ will use the microchip as a means of control in his One-World Monetary System , One-World Economy, and One-World Religious System. The Anti-Christ will enforce the rationing of food through the chip after the worldwide economic collapse. Those without the chip cannot buy or sell. (But those who are against the Anti-Christ will find black markets thriving). Using the chip, he will force people to worship him as God. Those who refuse to worship him will be tortured and killed.

Apocalypse 13: 17 "And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
13: 18 "Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six."
13: 8 " And all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it (the beast) whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world."

A Smart Card is a prelude to the microchip as it also contains a chip but with less functions. To receive a smart card is not the same as to receive the microchip. Although we will not be condemned to Hell for accepting the smart card, yet our security would be in jeopardy.

Do not let them implant the chip, the mark of the beast, on your hand or your forehead. Anyone who takes this microchip will receive the wrath of God and be condemned to Hell for eternity.

Dr. Sanders later became a Christian and read chapter 13 of the Apocalypse about the mark of the beast. He was amazed to find out that the Bible was describing his chip.

He was then called by God to reveal this chip to the world. He refused like Jonah and 2 1/2 years later he was in the hospital with terminal cancer. Doctors told him that he had only 2 to 6 months to live. God spoke to him again and said: "I called you to obedience and you decided to go your own way." This time he accepted God's invitation.

Dr. Sanders had major surgery and survived with a large part of his stomach removed. He is now appearing on TV and radio talk shows, testifying about his work and warning the world not to take the chip in their right hand or in their forehead, the mark of the beast.

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