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New technology assigns IP address to each of your organs, reports back to your Android phone
Some clever Dutch researchers have managed to connect electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors, via an ultra-low-power short-range network, to the patient's mobile phone. An app on the phone tracks the readings -- presumably providing you with a pretty graph of your own heart activity, too. If your heart stops or stutters the app can then contact a doctor, or the emergency services, via Wi-Fi or 3G. Though I bet it's Wi-Fi-only in the glorious United States. There's a video after the break, if you want to see it in action.
The designer of the system, Julien Penders, says that other sensors could also be attached to this Body Area Network (BAN). Strap on an electroencephalogram (EEG) and you have an app that could measure changes in your neurological condition. How about a blood sugar concentration sensor for diabetics, or blood alcohol concentration sensor for, er... students?
Curiously, and more than a little unnervingly, this device is called the 'Human++ BAN'. Human Plus (H+), if you weren't aware, represents the transhumanism movement. Imagine a world where everyone has such a device installed at birth -- imagine a world where someone behind a computer, some kind of world controller, knows when you're lying, when you're having sex, when you're feeling suicidal.
[via Engadget]
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Subscribe to commentsRTMSOct 11th 2010 11:32AM
As a diabetic I would love something like this for monitoring my blood sugars without the painful blood pricks I do now.
carbiniferousOct 11th 2010 12:33PM
1) cloud access to our vitals
2) constant real-time contact to crowd sourced social media
4) Electroencephalography based thought transmission/interpretation
all these things individually are cool and incredibly useful but "collectively" it seems like we are taking an evolutionary step to becoming the Borg.
Sebastian AnthonyOct 12th 2010 4:22AM
Yep -- Facebook, taken to the next level. Facebook only monitors what we type, though -- this will monitor what we think and feel, too...
Google will read both our geolocation AND biological data before searching...
demoOct 11th 2010 12:45PM
Resistance is futile...
BillOct 11th 2010 1:10PM
I hooked this up to my buddy. Then when we powered on the XBOX, there was an IP conflict with his heart and he died.
Sebastian AnthonyOct 12th 2010 4:23AM
Gahhh! The risks of using DHCP...
Taylor. Yes, Taylor.Oct 12th 2010 5:03PM
Shoulda used IPv6 man!
zungteeOct 11th 2010 6:22PM
That actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
AndresOct 11th 2010 8:15PM
Wow, you say Transhumanism, as though it's a bad thing. I completely disagree. We are the species that overcomes its limitations. We didn't stay on the ground. We didn't stay on the planet. We have overcome the limits of our biology through technology, and this has allowed us to move forward as a civilization.
Sebastian AnthonyOct 12th 2010 4:20AM
I am pro-transhumanism :)
I said 'unnervingly' -- that's not a bad thing! A cautious thing...