A magician in Missouri had a kooky idea: implant a computer chip into his hand and then do some fun magic tricks with it. “I’m living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now, locked out of technology inside my body, and it’s my own damn fault,” wrote Wang, who goes by the stage name Zi the Mentalist. “At least the imgur link started working again,” Wang wrote. Daniel Oberhaus, a former writer for Vice, recounted back in 2018 how he drunkenly got a near-field communications chip (NFC) implanted into his hand. “If I had a single piece of advice for anyone thinking about getting an NFC chip implant it would be to do it sober,” he quipped.