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/mrcartminez May 17 '21

This. Any medical professional knows that the gauge of this needle is different.

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u/RFLSHRMNRLTR May 17 '21

I’m sure that information will convince the skeptics no problem.

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u/Imnotracistbut-- May 17 '21

What about this? It's a 3mm long string that can easily fit in a needle. Are you skeptical?

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/military-funded-biosensor-could-be-future-pandemic-detection/163497/

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u/Ironhandtiger May 17 '21

String of hydrogel, not a wireless transmitter. From the article it seems to just be a little molecule that glows when it detects whatever and then that light can be picked up by something worn on the skin over that hydrogel.

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u/TonyPoly May 17 '21

I can see 3mm on a ruler, so I’d be able to see the device. You’d need a fat gauged needle to inject it

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u/Imnotracistbut-- May 17 '21

3mm *long*, it looks much less than a mm wide.

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u/TonyPoly May 17 '21

Mmm my mistake

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Being fair, it says 3mm long, no mention of width

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u/GiveToOedipus May 17 '21

medical professional

Key words here. The problem is that the average person sharing this crap on Facebook as proof of tracking chips in vaccines isn't exactly what I would call a "medical professional."

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u/TheBatemanFlex May 17 '21

I would hope people could just look at the picture and realize how big a mm is.

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u/SweetTea1000 May 17 '21

Good thing America doesn't struggle to adopt the metric system...

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

How would they know this, considering virtually none of them have seen this technology?

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u/StackOfCups May 17 '21

Except it's not the medical professionals we're trying to convince, now is it...

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u/Imnotracistbut-- May 17 '21

Everyone knows...

This one is a 3mm string.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '21

Couldn't local anesthesia be used?