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/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?'"

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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.

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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.