Last week we told you how those crazy bastards at MIT had dreamed up a new way to use semipermeable sensors inside your body for running new sorts of tests and then getting that data wirelessly. This week MIT researches have figured out a way to power a lot of internal devices wirelessly using In-Vivo Networking (IVN), so those semipermeable tests capsules are not the size of a walnut. That makes good sense on both ends.



MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs, monitor conditions inside the body, or treat disease by stimulating the brain with electricity or light.

The implants are powered by radio frequency waves, which can safely pass through human tissues. In tests in animals, the researchers showed that the waves can power devices located 10 centimeters deep in tissue, from a distance of 1 meter.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – MIT and In-Vivo Networking