Ian
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I'm the author of the immortallife piece linked above. While it was my colleague at Grindhouse Wetware that asked me to come up with a DIY method of synthesizing buckyballs, and we've floated around DIY nanotechnology a few times, we don't have any official projects related to nanotechnology at this time. @chironex pretty…
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Grindhouse Wetware's Circadia is one example of a health data implant. Unfortunately, it's not ready yet.
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Granted, there are processes going on in the human body -- such as electrochemical signals in the nervous system, particularly the brain and heart -- that have frequencies associated with them, but to say that a human has a frequency is nonsensical. Tesla is one of my heroes as well, but we have to be careful about what we…
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Yeah, I misspoke when I mentioned a battery. Although I do think that having one would be advantageous in the long run, for example by giving the ability to program more complex tasks into the implant, for this initial version we don't need that. @ThomasEgi I can confirm the sawtooth wave picture. It looks like that's more…
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I've long wanted to make a RFID chip whose ID was just a hexadecimal string of sixes, just to piss those kinds of people off. As @ThomasEgi said, though, if people don't like something they will come up with whatever bullshit reason to hate it. People (particularly fundamentalists) made similar arguments against vaccines…
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To some extent, I can reconstruct the schematics from the information I've been able to comb from Warwick's papers, his book, etc, and depending on exactly what capabilities we want the implant to have we'd be modifying the design anyway -- certainly if we want to fit the whole thing in an implant. But it would certainly…
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Did anyone ever manage to get a hold of him?
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I pretty much have zero expectation of any response from Gasson at this point. If anyone does contact him about this, it would have to be by phone or in person.
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You mean Steve Haworth?
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Who says we can't both do it? Arguably that would be better anyway. Though I assume that we wouldn't both get it for free.
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Also, I just noticed that the OP asked if anyone would be willing to be the first test subject. Put my name down for that.
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So, Gasson hasn't responded. I just sent him another email in case he didn't see the first one, but I'm not really optimistic at this point. It shouldn't necessarily be that much of a drag, though, as I can get a decent idea from looking at some of the papers what some of the design actually entailed. To an extent, though,…
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The one that Mark Gasson used, I believe, only copies itself onto any network that scans the tag and then downloads itself into any tag that's scanned by that network. I can't imagine you'd be able to do much more with a virus that can fit into a typical NFC tag.
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Warwick's actually put me in touch with Mark Gasson (the first human to be infected with a computer virus, for those of you who don't know him) who led the design team for that project. We'll see if he can help.
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Sorry, I've been too busy to check the forum in the past few days. The email is sent; if past experience is any indicator, I'll probably receive a response within a business day or so. I'll also keep combing through his papers to see if there is anything resembling a schematic there. By the way, even Warwick's device could…
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@glims I have contacted Warwick on multiple occasions, and received a response each time. I'd certainly be willing to do so again on this project if need be; though, I should mention that Warwick has several papers out describing the hardware, both the original designs and what actually ended up being implemented. I'll try…
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@AmmonRa Switching matrices for large inputs can be fairly quick (we're talking about hundreds of microseconds, which isn't that bad for the signals we're interested in), but the problem is that I don't know of any single matrix that can parse 96 inputs that could fit on a small enough board.
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I'm also overextended right now, but I'd be able to do something along these lines in a few months. Grindhouse has also talked multiple times about doing this project, and we have several interested programmers and electrical engineers (the more the merrier, right?), so if I can convince them to spend any time on it…
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First Ian Harrison, now @jawish. Warwick's students are just filing in here like there's no tomorrow :D
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Injecting oneself with snake venom or similar to build an immunity to it is not unheard of by any means, but it's really only practical if you work with venomous creatures on a regular basis. You have to keep a lot of antibodies circulating for this to be effective, so you have to keep doing this very often.
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A Wi-Fi chip is probably not an option here; those things eat energy like there's no tomorrow. You'd probably be better off with Bluetooth, which isn't particularly low-power either but at least is reasonable; and most Bluetooth chips have a sleep mode anyway. Then you can sync with it using a phone app. Instead of a…
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Well, people are doing something along those lines, like hooking up implants to a home automation system. So, the scenario you mention is at least possible in theory. Ultimately, what you need (in increasing order of difficulty) is an implant with wireless data transfer capabilities, some set of commands that the implant…
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@McSTUFF: Not to my knowledge, though IIRC @SixEcho was doing some interesting work on this front a year or so ago. He may be able to let you know how it went.
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@S0lll0s "is there any IC that basically acts as an "if (a&b) ... else ..."?" Yes. What you're looking for is a digital demultiplexer. For a 2-to-1 demux, if the control pin is HIGH, then it will output one of the input pins; otherwise, it will output the other one. Just hook an AND gate to the control pin and you've got…
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@S01110s: Videos of implanted LEDs? Here, and here. Video quality kind of sucks, but there you go.
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In addition to my work with Grindhouse Wetware (which currently involves making a very low-power implant), I've taken on two more projects at the moment, one of which is what I'd call biohacking. The essence of it is to extend something like Neil Harbisson's eyeborg device into something that can translate not just…
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I'd be willing to get in on a group buy when it happens. I'd also willing to be a control for @glims. If the tests have anything to do with listening comprehension, though, I might not be that useful since I have perfect pitch.
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After we finish Northstar, we're planning on revamping Circadia a bit to allow it to make use of the deep sleep modes. We're even planning on getting off of Arduino-based stuff, both for software efficiency and power efficiency reasons.
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I believe you mean January 2011.
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As far as I know, the best way to get a MEA (at least the "Utah" version) is to place a request at this company. Your lab may have a better source, though.