Heard on NPR Sunday that Physicists at University of California, Berkley have created a radio that is one- ten-thousandth the side of a human hair... as in stack up 10,000 of them and they'd be as wide as a human hair. No joke. Right now it is a receiver only, but it could be tweaked to be a transmitter as well. It is essentially the size of DNA and thus you could easily inject a "radio" into one of your individual blood cells. Or a transmitter. Maybe you already have some inside you now? Like any other technology it raises some big brother concerns but pretty amazing nonetheless. Need a high powered microscope to even see the thing - but it works - you can even hear it play at ....
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15868800
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That would be neat to have a radio in your head. Maybe even transmit ipod broadcasts directly to your skull?
Could we download a podcast of what's going on in Vic's head?
I'd imagine it would need to be spell checked and defragmented first?
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