Missouri magician and molecular biologist Zi Teng Wang thought he’d spice up his act by incorporating a little bit of a cyberpunk dystopian vibe. So, he implanted an RFID chip into his hand that he could use to trigger magic tricks, which sounds like cheating. I’m not up on the latest ethical debates in the magic community, but that definitely sounds like cheating.

He then forgot the password.

Wang, who goes by the stage name Zi the Mentalist, recently posted an X-ray on Facebook showing the chip lodged between his thumb and index finger, along with an admission that he has absolutely no idea how to access it anymore. “I’m living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now,” he wrote.

Originally, the chip was supposed to create slick, futuristic illusions. Audience members could tap their

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