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Feds Help Finance Creation of Implantable Body Antenna for ‘Long-term Patient Monitoring’
Washington Free Beacon ^
| May 27, 2015
| Elizabeth Harrington
Posted on 05/27/2015 12:58:19 PM PDT by lbryce
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping fund the creation of an implantable antenna for health care, which could be used for long-term patient monitoring.
The government has so far given $5,070 for a graduate fellowship to work on the project, which begins June 1.
The project is being financed in collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea to create a high frequency antenna that can be permanently implanted under a persons skin.
Antennas operating near or inside the human body are important for a number of applications, including healthcare, a grant for the project said. Implantable medical devices such as cardiac pacemakers and retinal implants are a growing feature of modern healthcare, and implantable antennas for these devices are necessary to monitor battery level and device health, to upload and download data used in patient monitoring, and more.
The grant said that an implantable device could be used for long-term patient monitoring and biometric tracking, or using technology to verify a persons identity.
Despite their potential use in long-term patient monitoring and wireless biometric tracking there is limited research on [Ultra High Frequency] UHF [radio-frequency identification] RFID for insertion in high-loss human body environments, the grant said. This research will greatly benefit from procedures already in place at Dr. You Chung Chungs antenna lab at Daegu University in Daegu, Korea.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beseeingyou; bigbrother; borg; foryourowngood; implantabledevice; internetofthings; nannystate; resistanceisfutile; theborg; tinfoiledagain; washington; youwillbeassimilated
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To: a fool in paradise
My Dad’s pacemaker could be communicated with over the phone. Not exactly something totally new.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:16:17 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Mycroft Holmes
Beware the latest Mr. Coffee with wi-fi.
22
posted on
05/27/2015 1:16:37 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: Covenantor
23
posted on
05/27/2015 1:17:29 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: SandRat
lets not forget....the TOTUS!
perhaps the best known unsung tele tubbie in the entire workd
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:18:41 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Covenantor
Beware the latest Mr. Coffee with wi-fi. I did asked if I should avoid microwave ovens.They laughed and replied that the only thing I had to worry about was leaning over an internal combustion engine or playing with a Tesla coil. The second is a real possibility.
25
posted on
05/27/2015 1:20:29 PM PDT
by
Mycroft Holmes
(The fool is always greater than the proof.)
To: BenLurkin
Not to offend you or give you a complex or something, the exact words to that line is
it's going to be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day.
26
posted on
05/27/2015 1:22:15 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
To: WayneS
27
posted on
05/27/2015 1:24:31 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: Fiddlstix
You must be on the budget committee, opting out for the cheaper, less invasive approach. Except for the antennas, the guy could be my “Uncle Martin”.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:25:56 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
To: Paladin2
With the phone, it was like a dialup internet connection (as opposed to wifi). You had to choose to interface with it.
“or using technology to verify a persons identity”
Nowadays there are people (public and private sector) who want to swipe info from passers by. Marketing, tallying, whatever.
There have been other calls for this to keep track of which students got on a school bus and where they got off.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:25:59 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: Fiddlstix
Ahh....Thank You!
I can always count on FReepers!
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:28:17 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
To: lbryce
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:28:25 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: SaveFerris
I don’t need the Feds to monitor my body,,EFF this!
To: lbryce
Yes.
Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:34:42 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SaveFerris
34
posted on
05/27/2015 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
To: austinaero; 444Flyer; SkyPilot; delchiante; CynicalBear; Iscool; StoneWall Brigade
It will be used to administer a welfare state - to stop fraud, ostensibly. Though I am not of the group following right behind the first video, I agree the MotB is not a microchip. Nonetheless, the idea of planting trackable or ID chips is downright scary. And I’m sure it’s coming.
Now, on to welfare fraud (in another country right now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Num5h7itk
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:38:31 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: SaveFerris; lbryce
I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
...
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:39:19 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: lbryce; BenLurkin
Thanks. I meant the movie clip, which is what I thought you were referring to.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:39:59 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: SaveFerris
The clip at 10 is from “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang.
33 is from “THX 1138”
36 is “Fahrenheit 451”
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:42:18 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Ah, thanks. I have not seen either movie. I saw the police chase in 451, I think, but that’s all.
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:45:26 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: SaveFerris
Nonetheless, the idea of planting trackable or ID chips is downright scary."Aw, who's afraid of a little ol' chip?" -- Marco D'Beast
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posted on
05/27/2015 1:46:15 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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