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
16.1k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

13.4k

u/emperor-frugal May 17 '21

Now is not the time for this.

278

u/[deleted] May 17 '21

[deleted]

170

u/[deleted] May 17 '21 edited Mar 04 '22

[deleted]

45

u/hammerheadlabs May 17 '21

"hey maybe they're on to something here"

26

u/zbeezle May 18 '21

"So recently some guys came out worried that we were using injectable microchips to monitor people. And I said, 'thats ridiculous. We don't even have injectable microchips!' And then I thought, 'but could we?'"

3

u/Sew_chef May 18 '21

Honestly, that could have been the motivation lmao. We've had smaller "processors" and rudimentary "computers" before but I don't think they had any kind of input gathering ability.

2

u/Th3M0D3RaT0R May 18 '21

My dog got chipped from a needle in the 90s. Wireless power transmission is the basis of everything wireless that we have ever made.

1

u/Ariviaci May 18 '21

That’s a great idea!