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Wi-Fi-Enabled Tooth Sensor Rats You Out When You Smoke Or Overeat
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Researchers at National Taiwan University have created a tooth-embedded sensor that will catch you in an unhealthy act, whatever it may be, and lets your doctor know so he can shame you during your next checkup. The sensor consists of a tiny circuit that fits inside a tooth cavity and can be rigged into dentures and dental braces. The circuit is able to recognize the jaw motions of drinking, chewing, coughing, speaking, and smoking, and the results get sent directly to your doctor's smartphone."
Only fee more teef to pull.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I will pass on having my tooth hacked...by a dentist or hacker.
I think this would be 100x more effective if it just gave you a mild shock or direct feedback, instead of waiting for the rare doctor's (dentist's?) visit.
Heck, even to my own smartphone would be better... No doctor needed to see a nice graph. Maybe some optional social integration for those who like to be socially encouraged to do better.
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
And the practical reason for this is what, exactly?
Do the doctor can tell them they shouldn't have done, something they already did, and already know shouldn't have?
Maybe, just maybe, HMO and insurance companies could benefit from this but, the person? How exactly?
morcego
Placing wifi-devices in close proximity to your brain doesn't sound like a smart idea.
Unless you are evil and trying to get more people to use your company owned hospitals or reduce the population.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Placing wifi-devices in close proximity to your brain doesn't sound like a smart idea.
It's non-ionizing radiation and presumably won't have enough power for thermal heating to be a concern, so I don't think you need to be too worried.
Bluetooth
You saw me drinking alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
If you read the actual PDF, the sensor is a full 1cm in length and all the power and support devices are wired up. They are a LONG way off from having this function is a real mouth. WiFi? Why not NFC? Who's going to fund something that looks like a razor blade embedded in a tooth to spy on the things you know you shouldn't be doing?
What sort of people get their teeth drilled often enough that this is an option? If you have good teeth, do you really want the unnecessary drilling to put this device in? Even if you have bad teeth, how often do you need those fillings replaced? Do you really want to take them out early just you can change the battery in this device?
And then there is the problem of what happens if the device does not survive the hostile environment inside a human mouth and starts leaking whatever toxic chemicals it is made of.
use this shit as "justification" to deny people payments. And make it mandatory.
out of my teeth.
Or is this BrownTooth?
Perhaps it would be best to use this for people who are already at risk for tooth decay or health problems that warrant replacement teeth, but unless you work out a way to hook it up to a voice recognition device for dictation, it's worthless to me!
Here's a jaw movement for it to recognize:
"FUCK your bullshit surveillance state, you avaricious Stasi dog-fuckers."
Seriously, I presume the installation will eventually become compulsory, since no person in their right fucking mind would ever, ever consent to having a goddamn tattler installed in their cranium.
Up next: Neural sensor that can tell when you've committed a thoughtcrime, and wirelessly reports it to the proper authorities.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
...when I misread the title as "when you smoke or overheat". One little H turns it from a bizarre desire to know why people's mouths are overheating to an "anyone who would have this installed voluntarily is an idiot, and anyone who would allow it to be installed involuntarily needs a backbone installed as well."
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
As a certified paranoiac I relish reading such news, it makes me feel warm and cozy because I'm right after all, my teeth do phone strangers.
It would run out of power in the first 24 hrs..
Placing wifi-devices in close proximity to your brain doesn't sound like a smart idea.
It's non-ionizing radiation and presumably won't have enough power for thermal heating to be a concern, so I don't think you need to be too worried.
Well, how about this from "the i-know-what-you-ate-last-summer dept." -- isn't it about time to consider better dental care anyway?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
On the third hand, the sun heats your head up far more than any cell phone ever could when you're outdoors and the human race hasn't suddenly gone extinct, which is a pretty good indication that whatever heating a cell phone causes has no effect on your health.
I wonder how it does with the scanners in airport security? I can imagine trying to explain to some security official of a country I'm visiting why I have a transmitter installed in my head: "No, really - it's because I'm fat."
Just don't bite down on it too hard.
Doctor: "According to your readouts, you've been eating waaay too much ice cream over the last few months! Almost every night, and at some pretty odd hours too! Well, what do you have to say for yourself?"
Patient: "Uhh...yeah. Ice cream...it was ice cream, for sure! Ah, sorry doc, will try to do better..."
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
I'm more afraid of them developing one that would tell my wife.
Well, I mean, you wouldn't need to worry if you stopped putting your mouth around all those dicks...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
and the NSA, of course.
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And I'd get this why? Have we reached an age where we're expected to get microchip implants so people can monitor what we do?
Fuck that.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
And your HMO.
After all, that cigarette you snuck is grounds to cancel your policy.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Nor does giving people with potential health issues further reason not to see a doctor or dentist.
So, in addition to being able to track your location by following your cell-phone, they'll be able to follow your teeth now.
It this related to those "Alien Probes" that we keep hearing about?
Not sure about that, but I understand that the procedure in these cases involves wrapping a wet towel around your head and getting your ass to Mars.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The circuit is able to recognize the jaw motions of drinking, chewing, coughing, speaking, and smoking, and the results get sent directly to your doctor's smartphone."
It would be much more useful to have a circuit to recognize CHOKING than smoking, and the market would be much larger....
It will explode with poisonous gas as soon as the sensor detects Duke Leto nearby!
That device does not seem very selective. It will catch someone chewing gum, but miss someone drinking sodas.
IMO the more you chew, the better for your health. It means you consume real food
And the way you know that the only mechanisms for cancer are ionizing radiation and heating is... what exactly?
early warning system to get on the black list under the gop healthcare plan
Nope.
Would love to leave it there but should just elaborate to say this unevidenced assertion flatly contradicts your own unevidenced assertion, thus bringing balance back to the force. Mine agrees with the consensus at least. Maybe you're one of those aspartame people. Anyway.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Yeah but 'radiation' is a scary word - so it MUST do something bad. I mean, people get headaches, sometimes.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
We sure don't. But if it was in any way significant we probably would. So personally, I care not an iota what non-ionizing radiation might or might not be doing to me right now. Cost of being alive.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Does the majority of the world really have reasoning abilities that plateau at about six years old? It seems that way from the Internet. Fucking terrifying.
Yes it cooks your brain and you die. Wifi cooks brains. We're all doomed. Planet X.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
And the way you know that the only mechanisms for cancer are ionizing radiation and heating is... what exactly?
Fail.
Cancer requires DNA damage. There's lots of ways to damage DNA but device only has (low power) heating and non-ionizing radiation.
(...also cellphones, routers, etc. None of those devices are injecting you with chemicals or producing particulate radiation!)
No sig today...
Neither does asbestos, yet it still causes cancer.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567531/
There are other examples as well. The idea that we know a complete list of ways in which physical or chemical agents can cause cancer is simply unscientific bullshit.
Yeah, specifically your fail.
That does seem to be the point. Or didn't you RTFS?
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
In what way is this not "injecting you with chemicals" ?
Have you never handled fibrous asbestos? It sticks into your skin and irritates exactly like a thousand tiny needles. Because it is penetrating the skin and irritating the nerves underneath. How it stops, I don't know - encapsulation? dissolution? - but the whole process is worrying.
[There may also be an effect from the surface chemistry of the fibres, as well as the fibrous nature itself ; that's not clear, either way, which is why avoiding inhaling fibrous material is generally a good idea. That includes "natural" fibres like wool ; not that asbestos is less natural than wool, or that glass fibre (less damaging than most asbestos types) isn't an evil, less-damaging "chemical". But you're not allowed to think of evil "chemicals" as being less nasty than cuddly "natural products".]
There's plenty of evidence that life causes cancer, in and of itself, without the need for any enhancing factors (chemicals, organisms, radiations, physical influences e.g. fibres). There's a lot of biochemistry going on in any cell, all of which has the potential to damage DNA, and in a multicellular organism, to therefore generate cancer. So long as the error rate of DNA decoding to proteins is low enough that the majority of specimens of a population reproduce successfully (NB: "reproduce", not "breed") before dying of cancer, that's not a problem. And, when we have the technology to (1) clone bodies from individuals and (2) transfer memories and personalities from original into those clones, who is going to give a shit about cancer?
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"