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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 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.”

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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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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

While recent history has shown that the intelligence of the American people is unquestionably something not to be counted on, acting with an appalling lack of good judgement,common sense akin to being ethereal including having shown an overwhelming inability at self-preservation, there are some things they're far too keen to fall for.

An "implantable body antenna" (with an easy, simple method of implantation surely the device, method of implantation as suggested by the president)has got to be by far the worst, most extreme, hare-brained governmental idea ever conjured up in the name of science.

Given the history of science and governmental collaboration, the device itself would surely prove to be prone to error and mishap. But it's not the invasive attempt at keeping tabs on america's health that gets me, its the very brazen idea of just such a cockamamie device being concocted by scientists in collaboration with the government with such abject brazen temerity, the unctuous clueless stupidity that Americans would not be in opposition to having an implantable antenna inserted int o their bodies for scientific reasons as excuse the reaction to which that boggles the mind.

As second choice, I suggest all Americans be wired the way tracked animals are. Instead of having it inserted internally, let them place the antenna on a device hooked to a fixed location on top of the head.

1 posted on 05/27/2015 12:58:19 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

Antenna-Man

coming to a theater near you!


2 posted on 05/27/2015 1:01:37 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
I knew those little b*****ds were pure evil.


3 posted on 05/27/2015 1:06:13 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I see an Arnold Swartzenegar film in this “Antenna-Man!”


4 posted on 05/27/2015 1:06:38 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: lbryce
An "implantable body antenna" (with an easy, simple method of implantation surely the device, method of implantation as suggested by the president)has got to be by far the worst, most extreme, hare-brained governmental idea ever conjured up in the name of science.

I had a FReeper jump all over my back a few months ago for daring to raise concerns about such things. I can handle differences of opinion but the level of discourse around here has been taking a turn for the worse with so much infighting.

Glad to see others aren't so pleased to be "plugged into" the internet of things.

5 posted on 05/27/2015 1:06:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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Feds Help Finance Creation of Implantable Body Antenna for ‘Long-term Patient Citizen-of-Interest Monitoring’
6 posted on 05/27/2015 1:06:48 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: lbryce

My mother has an antenna implanted.

Within a few minutes the technician can download her heart/pacemaker history and make adjustments and recommendations.

Really cool.


7 posted on 05/27/2015 1:07:39 PM PDT by TexasGator
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Do they have one of those so I can listen to Rush and Levin?


8 posted on 05/27/2015 1:08:38 PM PDT by Baynative (For someone to get something without paying for it, someone else must pay for it without getting it.)
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To: SandRat

ahahaha See Post Number 3!

THE TELE TUBBIES are COMING..THE TELE TUBBIES are COMING!


9 posted on 05/27/2015 1:09:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: lbryce
"It's going to be bright, bright, sun shining day."


10 posted on 05/27/2015 1:10:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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11 posted on 05/27/2015 1:10:29 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: lbryce

What could possibly go wrong?


12 posted on 05/27/2015 1:10:30 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (ISIS: Islam's Reformation)
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To: lbryce
The current generation of pacemakers from Merlin connect wirelessly to a monitoring unit from about 6 feet away. That unit connects via wireless to your local ethernet and then to the server at the hospital. I have one installed.

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13 posted on 05/27/2015 1:10:35 PM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: Baynative

ROFL Wouldn’t it be cool. Imagine walking around listening to Rush and Mark Levin, that sure will make every liberal head explode.


14 posted on 05/27/2015 1:11:27 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: lbryce

I got your Implantable Body Antenna right here!

(cough) sorry. disregard.


15 posted on 05/27/2015 1:12:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: lbryce

Will it pick up old broadcasts of Sing Along with Mitch?


16 posted on 05/27/2015 1:12:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: lbryce

YOU WANNA PUT A CHIP IN MY WHAT??????.........

17 posted on 05/27/2015 1:13:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: MeshugeMikey
THE TELE TUBBIES are??? Rosanne Bar, Michele, Rosie O’Doughnuts, Micheal Moore, etc...
18 posted on 05/27/2015 1:14:15 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: lbryce

Ankle bracelet.


19 posted on 05/27/2015 1:14:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Patriot Babe

My dentist once joked that he was implanting an antenna inside my tooth before mounting the gold crown.


20 posted on 05/27/2015 1:15:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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