IMPLANTOS/THE JOURNEY

AN ONGOING EXPERIMENT BY CLAYTON SZAKACS

EST. 2026

A small connection.
A bigger possibility.

What happens when technology becomes personal?
This is my journey from curiosity to a connection
I’ll eventually carry in my own hand.

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THE WEB EXPERIENCE IS LIVEPhysical NFC testing is still ahead.

01 / THE REASON

A little science fiction.
A real starting point.

Games like Cyberpunk made me curious about a world where technology becomes part of us. Purchasing a Dangerous Things NExT v2 was my small step from imagining that future to exploring what I could actually build.

I’m Clayton, a marketing student learning through a project that feels personal. I want to understand the technology, make the experience my own, and document the decisions along the way.

Clayton Szakacs
Clayton SzakacsCuriosity → experimentation → experience

02 / FIELD NOTES

An idea becomes something real.

LATEST FIRST
04DIRECTION

One project. Two destinations.

The tap should be simple. The story deserves room.

The first website tried to introduce the project and tell the whole story in one place. As the identity experience took shape, those became two different needs.

Now the direction is clear: tap.clayszak.com is the quick introduction. journey.clayszak.com is where I document the build, what I learn, and what comes next.

THE DESIGN DECISION

Give someone arriving from a tap a clear next step. Give someone who’s curious a deeper story.

03LAUNCHED

From a demo to my identity.

The landing page became something that actually feels like me.

The new V1 pairs my photo and name with two focused modes: Identity and Implant. Identity opens my Instagram and LinkedIn. Implant explains the hardware in a concise, approachable way.

The design is black-on-black, with a brief sliced-text introduction. It’s been published, and the editable files are saved in the ImplantOS repository. The photo, links, and content can evolve as the project does.

Open the tap experience ↗
02BUILT

The first working version.

Before testing the hardware, I needed somewhere for the connection to lead.

With AI coding assistance, I built the first mobile-first website: a browser demo, an explanation of the idea, and my first journal entry. That initial implementation was merged into the GitHub repository.

It made the idea tangible. I could open a real page in a normal browser, think about what a visitor would understand, and start refining the experience before an actual NFC tap.

Learning how the code works—and making changes myself—is part of this project, too.

01THE BEGINNING

Before the first tap.

It started with a fascination for body tech—and the chance to build something of my own.

I purchased the NExT v2 and started exploring what I could do with it. The idea of carrying a connection to something I built in my own hand was what drew me in.

“I want to understand what I can build with this technology—and learn by making it my own.”

At the start of this journal, I was waiting for the implant and exploring installation arrangements. No physical NFC tests had happened yet. The first step was the web experience.

I’m documenting this for anyone curious about the project, and as a record of how I approach an idea: the decisions, experiments, setbacks, and results as they happen.

03 / WHAT COMES NEXT

The first real tap
is still ahead.

The website is a working starting point.
The physical experience remains to be tested.

  1. 01

    Try it with people.

    See what visitors understand, where they tap, and what needs to be clearer.

  2. 02

    Connect the hardware.

    After installation and when ready for use, test the planned NFC link with a compatible phone.

  3. 03

    Document what happens.

    Record real results, refine the experience, and keep learning how the code works.

THE IDEA, SIMPLY

A link is the beginning.

The planned NFC interaction shares a web address. The phone opens the website, where the experience lives and can keep changing. Opening the page today works in a normal browser; it doesn’t mean a physical scan has happened.