Posted on 06/15/2021 8:20:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Scientists at Columbia University have created the world's smallest single-chip system—complete wireless electronic circuits that can monitor conditions in the body.
The chips, called "motes," have a total volume of less than one cubic millimeter, making them smaller than microscopic dust mites.
No, these microchips can't be used to track you; they can only communicate outside the body with an ultrasound machine.
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Your next doctor's appointment could soon become much more informative thanks to new microchips the size of dust mites, only visible beneath a microscope.
Picture this: Your surgeon wants to continuously monitor your lungs prior to a procedure to ensure your respiratory system is strong enough to deal with anesthesia. So, a technician uses a hypodermic needle to inject a few small microchips into your body. Then, they use an ultrasound machine to communicate with the chips, which show your lungs are primed for the operation. Your subsequent surgery is a breeze.
This is a vision of the future with the world's smallest single-chip system, a complete electronic circuit that technicians could one day inject directly into the body to monitor and diagnose certain health conditions.
Scientists at Columbia University have designed and fabricated the chips to measure body temperature so far, but they hope that one day, the chips can monitor everything from blood pressure, to glucose, to respiration, according to their new research, which appears in the journal Science Advances.
"We are very eager to pursue devices like this to augment ultrasonography, to go beyond what is available through endogenous characteristics of tissue," lead researcher Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering at Columbia University, tells Pop Mech.
"These devices can be designed to sense things and communicate this information back to the ultrasound image, which also provides biogeographical information on where this particular information was sensed," Shepard says.
But before you break out your book of conspiracy theories, we should be clear that researchers can't, under any circumstances, use these tiny devices to track you; they don't even use the type of radio frequency (RF) communications that would be required to do so.
How It Works Each chip—or "mote," as the researchers call them—has three primary characteristics, Shepard says. Data transmission and power are both wireless; the interface that connects the human to the technology is integrated on the chip itself; and the device has a form factor that makes it amenable to the human body, meaning it's very small and unobtrusive.
To establish these qualities in a temperature-sensing chip, the team began with a typical "complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor" (CMOS) process, much like the technology you'd employ to create a chip for a computer, a car, or a smartphone. CMOS chips are made with a pair of semiconductors that are attached to a secondary voltage source so that they work at opposite times; when one transistor is switched on, the other is switched off.
A schematic that shows the mote’s components. COLUMBIA ENGINEERING But the Columbia researchers needed to add a microscale piezoelectric transducer to the chip so it could communicate with ultrasound technology. The transducer converts mechanical sound waves from the ultrasound machine into electrical signals and vice-versa. It's covered with a small layer of gold on both sides to enhance connectivity. The mote also features a layer of special conductive film and a thin sheet of copper.
"These are added after we get the chip back from the commercial foundry," Shepard explains. "In addition, we have to etch and thin the chips to these very small form factors and coat them with a kind of plastic for biocompatibility."
Just need a tattoo over the chip so you know where on the forehead or right hand it’s implanted.
Just need a tattoo over the chip so you know where on the forehead or right hand it’s implanted.
Don't "use", but do they "have" an RF signature?
People who don't know science should not be reporting on technical issues.
Gee, what could possibly go wrong. With such a group of trustworthy medical “experts” and politicians as we now have.......
for the end times ping list
> Bill Gates isn’t going to use it to track you. <
For now, anyway. But just you wait until he figures out how to get some crappy version of Windows into one of those things.
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“….total volume of less than one cubic millimeter, making them smaller than microscopic dust mites.”
Umm… a cubic millimeter isn’t microscopic, last I heard.
Big no to that too.
**People who don’t know science should not be reporting on technical issues**
When most of your readers don’t know how to operate a yardstick, technical jargon is just line filler to the story; which, in this case, is about how everybody should like to be electronically tagged, because it’s a GOOD thing.
Nevermind that it could also be a vehicle carrying a killer; ready upon command to terminate your rebellious bag of bones.
There must be a pier near where you are Courtney.
Why don't you go take a LONG walk?
Also, the RF used can be changed. And expect capabilities to greatly increase over time.
But chipping humans is definitely on the ruling class agenda. The underlying technology has been used for decades on free range cattle. A humane alternative to branding, you see. So it's known to work.
It's also been implemented on humans on a voluntary limited basis in Sweden. Most likely to work out any bugs.
I don't have any specific "conspiracy theories" but my guess is when the time comes they won't be sneaky about it. You will be politely asked, then ordered.
I anticipate big propaganda why it's a good thing. Finding lost children perhaps. And you are evil if you refuse. Maybe it will be a precondition to receiving health care. Or access to the cashless economy.
I hope this regime does not last long enough for us to find out. We'll see.
There is no try, only do.
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