Posted on 10/26/2002 2:31:59 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Got this in my mail today...feel so warm and fuzzy that this is now growing and in my home city!
VERICHIP CORPORATION LAUNCHES NATIONAL "GET CHIPPED™" PROMOTION - FIRST 100,000 REGISTRANTS AND ALL QUALIFIED ADSX SHAREHOLDERS ELIGIBLE FOR $50 INTRODUCTORY SAVINGS
New Authorized VeriChip Centers and Distribution Centers established in Arizona, Texas and Florida
PALM BEACH, FL– October 24, 2002 – Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSX), an advanced technology development company, today announced the launch of a national "Get Chipped" promotion for VeriChip, a subdermal personal verification microchip. The first 100,000 registrants and all qualified ADSX shareholders will be eligible for a special introductory savings of $50 at the time of "chipping." Details on the "Get Chipped" promotion will be posted soon on the Company's website: www.adsx.com.
The Company also announced that it has established four new Authorized VeriChip Centers and Distribution Centers in Arizona, Texas and Florida. Including these new centers, there are now seven Authorized VeriChip Centers in the United States: Phoenix, Arizona; San Antonio, Texas; Naples, Florida; Port St. Lucie, Florida; McLean, Virginia; Boca Raton, Florida; and Sunrise, Florida.
The "Get Chipped" registration program will assist the Company in determining where and when to establish future Authorized VeriChip Centers. The Company's fully equipped mobile center - ChipMobile™ - has increased its marketing efforts in the Southeast region, maintaining a full schedule of visits to recreation and stadium events, health clinics, nursing homes, and general 'awareness' locations. Those interested in seeing a photo of the ChipMobile, or in learning more about its schedule of community visits, are invited to visit www.adsx.com.
Today's announcement comes two days after the Company issued a press release describing a ruling by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that VeriChip is not a regulated medical device "for security, financial, and personal identification/safety applications."
As previously described by the Company, the marketing of VeriChip involves these three main categories:
VeriChip Subscribers (individuals who decide to "get chipped");
Authorized VeriChip Centers (healthcare facilities/distribution points where the sales of VeriChip and "chipping" procedures take place); and
VeriChip System Affiliates (including law enforcement organizations, EMTs, hospitals, search and rescue units, nursing homes, commercial enterprises and government agencies) that will employ the proprietary VeriChip scanners for identification purposes.
These three categories are all supported by the Global VeriChip Subscriber (GVS) Registry, which provides immediate access to a secure database containing Subscriber-supplied, personal verification information. The GVS Registry service is hosted and maintained by Digital Angel Corporation's (Amex: DOC) state-of-the-art operations centers in Riverside, California, and Owings, Maryland.
Those interested in becoming VeriChip subscribers, in establishing an Authorized VeriChip Center, or in becoming an affiliate or partner in marketing VeriChip are invited to subscribe on-line or call this toll free phone number: 1 800-970-CHIP (2447).
Based on the FDA's recent ruling, the Company will focus its initial U.S. marketing efforts on very promising applications for VeriChip related to security, financial anti-fraud and personal identification/safety.
In the security field, the Company is actively developing applications for VeriChip in a variety of security, defense, homeland security and secure-access applications. These opportunities include using VeriChip to control authorized access to government installations and private-sector buildings, nuclear power plants, national research laboratories, correctional facilities, and sensitive transportation resources. VeriChip is able to function as a stand-alone, tamper-proof personal verification technology or it can operate in conjunction with other security technologies such as standard ID badges and advanced biometric devices (e.g. retina scanners, thumbprint readers or face recognition devices). The concept of using VeriChip as a means for secure access could also be extended to include a range of consumer products such as PCs, laptops, cars, cell phones, and even homes and apartments.
In the financial arena, the Company sees enormous, untapped potential for VeriChip as a personal verification technology that could help to prevent fraudulent access to banking (especially via ATMs) and credit card accounts. VeriChip's tamper-proof, personal verification technology would provide banking and credit card customers with the added protection of knowing their accounts could not be accessed unless they themselves initiated -- and were physically present during -- the transaction.
One of the most promising areas being explored relates to identity theft protection. Crime statistics show that identity theft claims hundreds of thousands of victims every year. VeriChip offers a simple solution: a tamper-proof, personal verification technology that will deter identity theft by making it virtually impossible for criminal elements to access someone else's financial accounts and records.
About VeriChip™ VeriChip is a miniaturized radio frequency identification device (RFID) that can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification and healthcare applications. About the size of a grain of rice, each VeriChip product contains a unique verification number and will be available in several formats, some of which will be insertable under the skin. The verification number is captured by briefly passing a proprietary scanner over the VeriChip. A small amount of radio frequency energy passes from the scanner energizing the dormant VeriChip, which then emits a radio frequency signal transmitting the verification number. "Getting chipped" is a simple, outpatient procedure that lasts just a few minutes and involves only local anesthetic and insertion of the chip. VeriChip Corporation and its parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, are working with federal regulators to ensure full compliance with applicable regulations. VeriChip Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions.
About Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. Applied Digital Solutions is an advanced technology development company that focuses on a range of life-enhancing, personal safeguard technologies, early warning alert systems, miniaturized power sources and security monitoring systems combined with the comprehensive data management services required to support them. Through its Advanced Technology Group, the company specializes in security-related data collection, value-added data intelligence and complex data delivery systems for a wide variety of end users including commercial operations, government agencies and consumers. Applied Digital Solutions is the beneficial owner of a majority position in Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC). For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.adsx.com
Financial Identification
In the financial arena, the company sees enormous, untapped potential for VeriChip as a personal verification technology that could help to curb identity theft and prevent fraudulent access to banking (especially via ATMs) and credit card accounts. VeriChip's tamper-proof, personal verification technology would provide banking and credit card customers with the added protection of knowing their accounts could not be accessed unless they themselves initiated -- and were physically present during -- the transaction.
Pathetic.
No chip for me. I take care of myself.
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Reagan was President. (Little did I know then HOW GOOD WE HAD IT!)
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Btw, how ya been?
5.56mm
Change is not only inevidable....the chip will be used in a "good way"...TRUST ME 
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