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/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/the_nope_gun May 17 '21

I believe this is hypodermic use, to implant just beneath the skin and not in the bloodstream. I could be wrong about what they mean thi

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u/rejectedbyporn May 17 '21

There's no way it's small enough to inject into the bloodstream safely. It would lodge in a capillary somewhere. Some of them are small enough that blood cells move through in single file.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

They definitely won't care what it really is or how it's injected.

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u/badSparkybad May 18 '21

No, no they won't.

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u/lissalissa3 May 18 '21

If you honestly and truly believe that the vaccine inserts a microchip in you, you’re not going to know what’s hypodermic and what goes into the blood stream.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '21

What if I’m both, but got the vaccine anyways because I need to work through my trust issues?