Engineers Create the First Dust-Sized Wireless Implantable Human Sensors

Re:Engineers Create the First Dust-Sized Wireless Implantabl... by isuckatcoding on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:29PM (#12272735)

While I'm excited by the impact on the health industry (among other things), I wonder how this will affect spying (whether it is government or otherwise). Then again, I am just paranoid.

NSA: heavy breathing intensifies

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Re:Engineers Create the First Dust-Sized Wireless Implantabl... by adreid on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:51PM (#12272817)

Since you have to feed it ultrasonic energy to power it, I suspect it is not too bad because, IIRC, ultrasonic has a short range.

You could feed it electromagnetic energy - but then all you really have is a smaller version of the Great Seal bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device). I wouldn't be surprised if those already exist in about this size and the paper linked to from the web page talks about several such devices (and how they are not as well suited for implantation).

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Re:Engineers Create the First Dust-Sized Wireless Implantabl... by toothbrush on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:02PM (#12273162)

Haha, yeah, you know when you're in a plane just before take-off and the attendants walk up and down the aisles with (presumably) insecticide bombs spewing mist... :/

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