Zarlink puts radios inside your body

Got a press release today from Zarlink. They have a new radio on a chip that medical device makers can implant into your body to provide feedback about your vitals or drug delivery or anything else you can imagine. I don’t know if the radio will report back a bad attitude but the brain implant is sure to be right around the corner. This is really an amazing time we live in National Semiconductor CEO Brian Halla used to talk about how there is a pill you can swallow that will take pictures of your insides and relay it to a doctor so she can see what is going on. What a miraculous world we live in, where you can eat a radio. These Zarlink chips are meant more for use with pacemakers and other gizmos so that they communicate to the outside world without wires. In-body communications. Pretty soon we will need an in-body network so all the gizmos can talk to each other. Your heart rate will go to the insulin pump and that will be calling your doctor every month to provide a chart and spreadsheet.

A recent web article talked about how humans are likely to meld with machines. For the real perspective on this I can think of no better source that the short independent film, They’re Made Out of Meat. The dialog about “meat sounds” will also help you understand what is going on every four years when there is an election in this country.