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Flexible Microchips: Potential Treatment on the Horizon for SADS Patients
Flexible Microchips: Potential Treatment on the Horizon for SADS Patients
1/23/2013
What may sound a lot like science fiction, this technology is actual research happening in the United States right now! The latest Consumer Electronics Show, this past January 8-11, 2013, featured many new kinds of technology. One specific area could have potential benefits for SADS patients.
Engineers from
MC 10
, a private research and development group working on the interface between humans and electronic devices, has developed flexible microchips that can be used in a variety of ways.
In an article on
Quartz.com
, one researcher discusses their goals to, "eventually create an artificial pericardium-the sack that surrounds the heart-and infuse it with a mesh of his flexible circuits, all firing in a precise and reactive way, to act like a much more sophisticated and precise pacemaker for a diseased heart." Already, MC10 has created a prototype balloon catheter (pictured right) equipped with sensors that can measure electrical misfiring caused by cardiac arrhythmias.
Taken together, these devices represent something consumers have never really seen before—a body-based network of input and output devices that travels with us wherever we go. If it’s hard to imagine how any one of them might change our lives, what’s completely unpredictable is what they’ll do when combined. It’s exactly the sort of opportunity the consumer-electronics industry needs to lift it out of its doldrums. And the companies that can capitalize on that will be entering an industry with tremendous room for growth—because it doesn’t really exist yet.
While there is much more research to go in regards to this technology, it is still a promising treatment on the horizon for all SADS patients.
Article & Photo Source: Quartz.com
Author: Christopher Mims
http://qz.com/42632/the-internet-of-you-how-the-future-of-computing-became-screens-and-sensors-on-every-appendage/
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