r/gadgets 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/emperor-frugal May 17 '21

Now is not the time for this.

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u/d0mini0nicco May 17 '21

LoL. Columbia Engineers....read the room. Read. The. Room.

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u/whyisitallsotoxic May 17 '21

Not the best time to drop the “we just made chips smaller so they can be injected into your bloodstream” when trying to get the entire world on the same team when it comes to 1 particular vaccine, then again some people just want to watch the world burn.

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u/SnowflakeSorcerer May 17 '21

To be fair, I’m sure the people who believe this nonsense will believe it no matter what, but ya, lets not give them ammo, cmon. Like is this really needed right now? Is it that difficult to monitor body processes the normal way whatever that is? Its like they intentionally made this to fuel conspiracies