Feds Help Finance Creation of Implantable Body Antenna for ‘Long-term Patient Monitoring’

Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 27, 2015 | Elizabeth Harrington

[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 person’s 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 person’s 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 Chung’s antenna lab at Daegu University in Daegu, Korea.”

[Paladin2]

My Dad’s pacemaker could be communicated with over the phone. Not exactly something totally new.

[Covenantor]

Beware the latest Mr. Coffee with wi-fi.

[MeshugeMikey]

and then there are...

[MeshugeMikey]

lets not forget....the TOTUS!

perhaps the best known unsung tele tubbie in the entire workd

[Mycroft Holmes]

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.

[lbryce]

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.

[SaveFerris]

Yes, what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhDrFrs7as

At first, it will seem to be beneficial.

[lbryce]

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”.

[a fool in paradise]

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 person’s 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.

[G Larry]

Ahh....Thank You!

I can always count on FReepers!

[SaveFerris]

What is that taken from?

[austinaero]

I don’t need the Feds to monitor my body,,EFF this!

[BenLurkin]

Yes.

Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies

[lbryce]

YouTube:Johnny Nash:I Can See Clearly Now

[SaveFerris]

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

[BenLurkin]

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
...

[SaveFerris]

Thanks. I meant the movie clip, which is what I thought you were referring to.

[BenLurkin]

The clip at 10 is from “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang.

33 is from “THX 1138”

36 is “Fahrenheit 451”

[SaveFerris]

Ah, thanks. I have not seen either movie. I saw the police chase in 451, I think, but that’s all.

[JimRed]

Nonetheless, the idea of planting trackable or ID chips is downright scary.

"Aw, who's afraid of a little ol' chip?" -- Marco D'Beast