Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Forget training bracelet! Particles Large sensors in the body keeps track of your health – IDG.se

It really sounds to good to be true but scientists have high hopes about what wireless sensors in the dust grain size to handle in the future. They are called neural dust and has been developed by a research team at the University of Berkeley in California in the United States, reports the American Computerworld.

The idea is that the sensors can be implanted in the muscle and the peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system that do not belong to the brain or spinal cord. There they will be able to keep track of how much we practice, stimulate the brain and muscles, and see how some body work. It could be about to treat inflammation and epilepsy.

But the researchers believe that the use in the long term can be much more comprehensive.

– I think that in the future we may see a broader use of neural dust than just nerves and brain, says Michel Maharbiz, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Berkeley, in a statement.

– to have access to the remote inside the body has never been possible for it not existed no way to stop into something super small super deep. But now it is possible to take a grain of nothing and cook it right next to a nerve or body, your digestive tract or muscle, and reading of data.

Read also: the technology is getting better at reading brain. So when the computers can read minds?

According to the University must sensors rooms in a enmillimeterskub – which is about the size of a grain of sand.

However, scientists are trying to get it to be even less – down to a size of a cube with sides of 50 microns. That is about half the width of a human hair.

The sensors are driven by a piezoelectric crystal that can convert ultrasonic vibrations on the outside of your body into electricity.

The initial goal of the project has been to imagine the next-generation interface mellam brain and machine, creating a clinical technique that can work under Ryan Neely, a doctoral student in neuroscience at the University in a statement.

– If a paralyzed person would be able to control a computer or a robot arm would this electrode be implanted in the brain and it could work in the rest of life, he says.

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