Bluetooth 'Cuff' haptic jewellery as a stepping stone for bluetooth feedback implant?
I've had my eye on one of these little Cuff things for a while now, and it occurred to me that it could be worth looking into as a baseline for a haptic feedback implant if the coating was changed and wireless charging has improved implant-wise.
https://cuff.io/
Looks like a pretty small chip that you insert into jewellery for haptic
notification feedback over bluetooth. Neat, but still external. However,
the size doesn't seem /too/ terrible for an implant (probably after
de-shelling it and re-encasing it in something more body friendly).
According to the FAQs it uses some button presses to communicate with
the application, but until I get one in person I won't really have a
grasp of how vital that is. I'm guessing it'll be required to sync, so we'd need a remote way to trigger that OR be able to activate the button from outside the skin without it being so sensitive that it triggers with every small bump. Also, time will tell if the software will be easy to break into and piggy back off of (Or if there'll be an API for easier interfacing, if the app ever vanishes or goes obsolete.). If we're able to talk to it without the app, we could probably send all kinds of feedback to it. It also looks like it charges wirelessly. I saw a short clip of the Circadia charging
wirelessly, but I don't know how viable that would be for a once a week
chargeup of this lil thing.
Just tossing this out here as another potential tool, or inspiration to work on an implant-specific variation.
https://cuff.io/
Looks like a pretty small chip that you insert into jewellery for haptic
notification feedback over bluetooth. Neat, but still external. However,
the size doesn't seem /too/ terrible for an implant (probably after
de-shelling it and re-encasing it in something more body friendly).
According to the FAQs it uses some button presses to communicate with
the application, but until I get one in person I won't really have a
grasp of how vital that is. I'm guessing it'll be required to sync, so we'd need a remote way to trigger that OR be able to activate the button from outside the skin without it being so sensitive that it triggers with every small bump. Also, time will tell if the software will be easy to break into and piggy back off of (Or if there'll be an API for easier interfacing, if the app ever vanishes or goes obsolete.). If we're able to talk to it without the app, we could probably send all kinds of feedback to it. It also looks like it charges wirelessly. I saw a short clip of the Circadia charging
wirelessly, but I don't know how viable that would be for a once a week
chargeup of this lil thing.
Just tossing this out here as another potential tool, or inspiration to work on an implant-specific variation.
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--Addendum to my prior comment--
By tissue isolation, I'm referring to a topic we discussed at length in my favorite thread, Implantable Armor. Essentially, Large implants have the nasty possibility of preventing nutrients and blood flow from reaching certain areas of tissue. I was wondering whether or not we had any hard information on what the threshold for that phenomena is.