Engineers at the University of Washington just recently developed technology that allows a person’s contact lenses and/or brain implants to send data to the person’s smartphone/smartwatch. This new technology, called “Interscatter Communication,” functions by converting Bluetooth Signals into Wi-Fi signals. "Instead of generating Wi-Fi signals on your own, our technology creates Wi-Fi by using Bluetooth transmissions from nearby mobile devices such as smartwatches.” -Vamsi Talla, study co-author To demonstrate this new technology, the engineers designed a small contact lens with a tiny antenna. The antenna on the contact lens transmitted data to a smartwatch, effectively converting the Bluetooth signal into a Wifi signal that could be read by another device. Interscatter Communication is an important advancement in technology because it can help monitor a person’s blood sugar levels using contact lenses (blood sugar levels can be monitored through a person’s tears). It can also be used to transmit data from brain implants that could help people with paralysis someday be able to move unassisted. Source: http://www.livescience.com/55816-smart-contact-lenses-talk-to-your-phone.html
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Ms. Thayer
8/22/2016 10:35:50 am
Superb. Nicely done, Justine.
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Leyla
8/23/2016 08:44:39 am
Wow this is cool
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