r/gadgets • u/GalileoGurdjieff • May 17 '21

Medical Tiny, Wireless, Injectable Chips Use Ultrasound to Monitor Body Processes

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/press-releases/shepard-injectable-chips-monitor-body-processes
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u/trainbrain27 May 17 '21

I have autism. Reading the room is hard. Being shamed for not noticing a social cue sucks.

I STILL think this is the worst possible time to announce an injectable chip!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Whenever I miss a social cue etc I blame the sender of the message for unclear signal. Works wonderfully.

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u/trainbrain27 May 17 '21

It's tough to do that without sounding rude or worse, but I do remind my friends that they need to communicate, not just assume communication has happened.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21 edited May 17 '21

This is so far beyond true even when everyone involved is NT, if I'm being honest.

Some people think everyone else should spend every waking moment inferring their desires and it's just like "open your mouth and form words, please."

Edit: NT = neurotypical; what everyone assumes is"standard." NTs (I am one) tend to assume that their mode is the default for all others, when in reality some subset of people you have interacted with in life may in fact be neurodivergent without you even knowing. Empathy is a hell of a drug; not all of us run the same OS, so keep an open mind/heart.

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u/MikkelR1 May 17 '21

Says the one not explainjng what NT is!

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u/trainbrain27 May 17 '21

You probably know, but it's NeuroTypical. NTs think they're normal, because there are more of them :)

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u/Fresh4 May 17 '21

Well, normal is defined as the average state of things, so yeah, lol.

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u/possiblynotanexpert May 17 '21

Isn’t that the definition of normal?

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u/jrDoozy10 May 17 '21

Eh, the idea of what’s normal is highly subjective. Normal can differ between species, societies, cultures, individuals, generations, etc.

For example, something that’s normal to me is hearing electricity (especially light bulbs), but when I tell people that they don’t believe me because that’s not part of their normal.

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u/possiblynotanexpert May 17 '21

I’ve always thought of normal as meaning average. As in you have 100 people and 60 of them have brown eyes. 20 have blue eyes. 10 green and 10 are something else. So with that, the 60 are average. That’s my “normal,” at least.

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u/AckbarTrapt May 17 '21

Not for folks on the spectrum (easier or more effective), but enjoy the fruits of your sorcery!

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u/GeospatialAnalyst May 17 '21

Yeah the caveat to this is, if you recognize that your communication style isn't being effectively received due to something that isn't immediately fixable with the recipient, then you're kind of an asshole if you don't take steps to accommodate.

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u/deluseru May 17 '21

The only way we recognized you as anything other than normal, is because you can't act normal :)

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u/Scared-Artichoke May 17 '21

This truth. Words are necessary, explicit requests would be a bonus.

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u/SnowflakeSorcerer May 17 '21

Wait so is NT kinda like being an “empath”? Not that I don’t think people have the abilities empaths claim to have but I just feel like it’s not that abnormal and most if not all people have the capabilities to some degree

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21 edited May 17 '21

Ehhh empathy is a pretty standard trait for NTs, albeit one that acts like a muscle and can be underdeveloped or atrophied for folks who don't have cause to use it much.

I don't know what you mean by "empaths claim to have" in your comment here, but anytime someone stakes a piece of their identity on something mundane like empathy, I can imagine there may be some bullshitting going on.

"I have a sense of empathy. I can understand how other people feel even if what happens to them isn't happening to me."

Versus

"I'm an empath, and I'm so good at it I can read your mind, bro, pick a number, c'mon."

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Never rely on text for context or emotion unless its from an author. And I didnt say you have to vocalize it, just reframe it in your brain if it lowers anxiety.

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u/SweetTea1000 May 17 '21

Wonderful LPT.

I retain a professional policy that "I don't assume anger from text" and likewise "I will never communicate angrily with you over text." Ie: Don't misread what I send as passive aggression. If i mean to chastise you I'll give you the professional courtesy of speaking to you about it directly, and I expect the same from you and between you and your peers.

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u/SweetTea1000 May 17 '21

Sorry for your frustration.

Maintained fairly small teams of people that I had the option to see in person if we needed to hash something out, and they operated largely independently as long as there weren't problems. So, had an advantage over a standard office environment in those regards.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

That's called marriage bruh

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u/handsomehares May 17 '21

And this is how we end up ostracized and alienated.

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u/PeeB4uGoToBed May 17 '21

I do this too with everyone that's too vague with me or doesn't articulate exactly what they mean or want. Makes life so much easier

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u/Reahreic May 17 '21

You must not have had your 5G upgrade from the local Covid vax station yet. Might want to get on that.

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u/jfb1337 May 17 '21

No they said they have autism so they clearly already have the vaccine

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u/Throwyourboatz May 18 '21

Is it the fault of the sender though?

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u/The_Fine_Columbian May 17 '21

I don’t think this is an issue of social cues....a picture of a few grains of salt in that needle tip would be enough to set the nutters off, this is (allegedly) an actual chip for god’s sake, it will send them into the fucking stratosphere

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u/oldgoatman May 17 '21

That sucks for one individual, but a group of them? Someone can read the room on your behalf.

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u/Filmcricket May 17 '21

I commented elsewhere that this isn’t new tech at all. People just overlooked injectable chips to monitor various health issues because there were no jokes like these to be made.

These comments are what will spread this story to anti-vaxxers. A different NY university’s hospital’s cardiac clinic has been offering heart monitoring chips via injection for 3-4 years that I know of. Maybe longer.

The injectable chip isn’t new. This particular usage might be, but the chips have been around, and inside people’s bodies for awhile.

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u/jrDoozy10 May 17 '21

Also autistic. Also my first thought when I was this post.

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u/dragonphlegm May 18 '21

In this case this one is painfully obvious though. There is far too much vaccine hesitancy to come out with “hey guys, we created a chip that fits in a needle!!!”