Future is in our tip of the finger

You see this tiny chip in the image above?
This wireless sensor. One day, the doctor will
practice its implementation in our body to
monitor the performance of our bodies.
Moreover, these chips will allow once paralysed and amputees to manage their new
artificial limbs. Development of the first
prototype of this device the size of a grain belongs to scientists from the University of
California at Berkeley.





Each such sensor includes a piezoelectric
crystal that converts ultrasonic vibration
energy. Due to this power unit is capable of
transmitting on the resulting device, for
example, information about the work of nerve
cells in the brain, which will be used to control
bionic limbs.





Despite the fact that the current version of the
sensor measuring just 3 x 1 mm (including the
cubic component), a team of scientists said
that in the future, the device is still reduced in
size. Ideally, it is planned to create a sensor
the size of half the diameter of a human hair.
Such devices, according to experts (calling
them "neural dust"), will always work within
our bodies.





Through these chips need of prosthetic limbs
for people not to have to resort to the use of
implants with a bunch of bulky electrodes.





As noted by one of the chip developers,
Ryan Neely: 

"The initial objective of the project
neural dust was to try to introduce the

next generation of interfaces" brain ­
computer "and make this technology
viable. Such chips, after implantation
in the brain, will enable people
suffering paralysis, the power of
thought to control, such as a
computer or a robotic arm. And this
opportunity will remain for a lifetime. "

The research team believes that in addition to
the control of artificial limbs and monitoring of
bodies, such sensors can be used in the
treatment of a variety of tumors, including
cancers. In addition, it is possible that similar
chips will be used for the stimulation of the
nerve cells and muscles and prevent
symptoms of epilepsy. Of course, before the
advent of such facilities will take time,
however, scientists have conducted a
successful test of this chip prototype (pictured
above) in laboratory mice. 



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