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From Conference : 0070 - Aen News, Ne
Forwarded on    : Sunday, October 16, 1994, at 12:09
Original From   : JEFF RUDD
Addressed to    : ALL
Originally on   : 10/11/94 at 15:46
Regarding topic : Chip Implants 
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Popular Science                 Oct/94

The Body Binary - Philip L. Harrison

  Within the next ten years, we'll have miniature computers inside us
to monitor and perhaps even control our blood pressure, heart rate,
and cholesterol.  Within 20 years, such computers will correct visual
and hearing signals, making glasses and hearing aids obsolete.
   At least that's how Bertrand Cambou see it.  As director of
technology for Motorola's Semiconductor Products in Phoenix, Cambou
has been a part of the miniaturization of microprocessors and the
development of wireless communication technologies.  Both would have
central roles in putting computers inside the human body.
   It's now possible, notes Cambou, to put the sensors, processors,
and wireless radio freqency (RF) devices for an internal computer
onto a single, tiny chip.  The RF signaling would permit accurate
readouts of vital statistics without attaching anything to - or
drawing anything from - the body.  Even more amazing, internal
computers might enable the deaf to hear and the blind to see.  A
chip implanted on the optic nerve, for example, could correct
defective images or simply transmit entire images to the nerve.
   The notion of putting computers inside the body may be more
realistic than it sounds.  "We are not aware of any current
obstacles to the encapsulation and implanting of electronic
devices within the body, and the transmission characteristics
[of radio frequencies] through the body are well known," says
Cambou.

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