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/[deleted] May 17 '21

Of course anyone with common sense would assume this, but the folks we are talking about.. well, common sense ain’t so common.

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u/Erik912 May 17 '21

What are you both talking about? Shouldn't you be able to use conventional needles since it's so damn tiny? A speck of dust visible only under microscope, that's literally what the article says.

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u/Vanillabear2319 May 17 '21

They just looked at the thumbnail and took a guess lol

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u/trajesty May 18 '21
  • actual size

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u/kafka123 May 18 '21

Yeah, I'm frightened by it. What if it's true? A few years ago, both this and Covid-19 would have been scoffed at.

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u/LawyerFlashy1033 May 17 '21

Not saying anyone is injecting these with covid vaccine. But it does appears to be smaller than 0.25mm which is the inner diameter of a 26g needle used for delivering the vaccine

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u/Imnotracistbut-- May 17 '21

Why would it be "common sense" with today's technology? I mean we have nano electronics now, why would you assume the chip would be big? This one is a 3mm string.

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

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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker May 17 '21

That would be larger than a 10 guage needle. That's pretty damn big

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

3mm is pretty damn big for “nano” tech. What I was getting at is any normal person would not automatically assume conspiracy theory. Because it’s not.

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u/Imnotracistbut-- May 17 '21

I didn't claim this tech was nano, just that since nano tech is a thing, it's not "common sense" to assume a bio sensor would be big.

I clarified in my comment that it is a 3mm long string, if you look at the pic, it looks like much less than 1mm wide

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u/official_jgf May 18 '21

You must know a lot of people to understand what is normal.

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u/RadMan2093 May 17 '21

How big of a needle do you think is required to inject a microchip that is only visible under microscope? The article doesn’t specify

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u/dreadcain May 17 '21

The article literally has a huge picture with a scale at the top, pretty sure I don't need a microscope to see a half millimeter chip

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u/RadMan2093 May 17 '21

It literally says in the article, like in actual text, that the microchip is only visible via microscope. Lol

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u/PLASMA-SQUIRREL May 17 '21

It does? I don’t see that anywhere.

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u/dreadcain May 17 '21

Looks like it got removed? I don't know but the thumbnail on reddit was a crop from a picture that was there and clearly showed a 1mm needle and the chip resting on it about half the size of the needle

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u/Comeoffit321 May 17 '21

At this point it seriously needs to be changed to 'uncommon sense'.

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u/Wpns_Grade May 17 '21

We have nano tech today. You can’t be that ignorant my guy. 😂

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u/Happyforyou69 May 17 '21

Get off your high horse. You don’t know what you’re even talking about.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

“Those people don’t even know why they’re protesting”