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UC Berkeley build implantable, dust-sized wireless sensors Telemetry from your body — is nothing private anymore? Engineers and scientists from the electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, at Berkeley, have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could ...

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UC Berkeley build implantable, dust-sized wireless sensors Telemetry from your body — is nothing private anymore? Engineers and scientists from the electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, at Berkeley, have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time—or maybe power a projector in a contact lens. Because these battery-less sensors could also be used to stimulate nerves and muscles, the technology also opens the door to “electroceuticals” to treat
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