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Green implants are coming, and paving the way for implantable WiFi devices
2014-12-16 22:53:53| Extremetech
The FDA demands to know exactly how long medical implants will remain in the body, and how they will be removed. A way to avoid these issues entirely is to build implants from biodegradable materials like silk, and biologically safe metals like magnesium. A new device is now under testing that promises to deliver.
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Stanford creates tiny, high speed, ultrasound powered brain implants
2014-10-23 21:29:11| Extremetech
Stanford researchers suggest that the way to move beyond the legal, physiological, and physical constraints on the energy that can beam to an implant may be to move away from radio waves, and switch to ultrasound instead. Not content just to wax philosophical about these issues, they have now demonstrated proof of principle for ultrasound power transmission into the brain -- or at least into a three-centimeter-thick slab of chicken meat.
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Transparent optogenetic brain implants: Yet another amazing use for graphene
2014-10-21 18:32:42| Extremetech
The most powerful brain implants being built today can record fast electric signals using conductive arrays while permitting light to pass out through them for high-resolution imaging . To take it up a notch, they also can let light in for optogenetic control directly under the implant. Two new studies just published in Nature Communications have the details.
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The future of permanent, fully integrated prosthetic limbs and bionic implants
2014-09-16 20:13:33| Extremetech
Researchers at the Royal National Orthopedic hospital have now created a new kind of prosthetic device that interfaces the load-bearing member of a leg prosthesis directly to the endoskeleton.
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DARPAs tiny implants will hook directly into your nervous system, treat diseases and depression without medication
2014-08-29 16:15:31| Extremetech
DARPA, on the back of the US government's BRAIN program, has begun the development of tiny electronic implants that interface directly with your nervous system and can directly control and regulate many different diseases and chronic conditions, such as arthritis, PTSD, inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease), and depression. The program, called ElectRx (pronounced 'electrics'), ultimately aims to replace medication with "closed-loop" neural implants, which constantly assess the state of your health, and then provide the necessary nerve stimulation to keep your various organs and biological systems functioning properly.
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