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Researchers Test Tooth-Mounted Sensor-Enabled Chips (go.com)
Researchers at Tufts University are testing tooth-mounted RFID chips which sense and transmit data on what goes in your mouth. ABC News reports:
The sensors looks like custom microchips stuck to the tooth. They are flexible, tiny squares -- ranging from 4 mm by 4 mm to an even smaller size of about 2 mm by 2 mm -- that are applied directly to human teeth. Each one has three active layers made of titanium and gold, with a middle layer of either silk fibers or water-based gels. In small-scale studies, four human volunteers wore sensors, which had silk as the middle "detector" layer, on their teeth and swished liquids around in their mouths to see if the sensors would function. The researchers were testing for sugar and for alcohol.
The tiny squares successfully sent wireless signals to tablets and cell phone devices. In one of their first experiments, the chip could tell the difference between solutions of purified water, artificial saliva, 50 percent alcohol and wood alcohol. It would then wirelessly signal to a nearby receiver via radiofrequency, similar to how EZ Passes work. They demonstrated that different concentrations of glucose, a type of sugar, could be distinguished, even in liquids that had sugar concentrations like those found in fruit drinks.
The tiny squares successfully sent wireless signals to tablets and cell phone devices. In one of their first experiments, the chip could tell the difference between solutions of purified water, artificial saliva, 50 percent alcohol and wood alcohol. It would then wirelessly signal to a nearby receiver via radiofrequency, similar to how EZ Passes work. They demonstrated that different concentrations of glucose, a type of sugar, could be distinguished, even in liquids that had sugar concentrations like those found in fruit drinks.
"We're not saying you HAVE to have this implant so we can monitor all of your intake, we're just saying that your health insurance will double if you don't"
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shows off petaflop grille
...then you're a porn star.
Dunno if I recall it properly, and it is a bit dated: Three businessmen are eating lunch. One starts talking to someone who doesn't appear to be there. He explains to his lunch partners that his company put a telephone in his teeth, it merely taps them in the right sequence to make a call and then an ear implant allows him to hear the other end. Another of the businessman shakes his head and then starts talking. Explains to his lunch partners that his company had a telephone installed in his head, he mere needs to nod and bob to dial and answer calls. The last businessman, feeling somewhat behind the technology curve, lets out a rip roaring fart. He then explains to his lunch partners that he must visit the men's room because a FAX has just come in.
Trump better get used to cavity searches...
Instead of sugars or alcohol, test for roughies.
Test for what *I* care about, not what insurance companies care about.
It seems strangely appropriate that with this sensor in place you'd have to snort your sugar to get a fix without getting caught.
But wait a minute -
Didn't I just read about how the cops are getting parents
To plant bugging devices In their kids teeth?
And didn't I read that these devices can go two-way?
And everything that I do or say is all goin' on tape somewhere right now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPV73jB0N6Q
Jello and Alien at their finest...
No wonder every bad thing in and out of my mouth keeps winding up on my employment record.
You're concerned about fish? Or has the sugar and alcohol eaten away at your brain and changed "roofies" to "roughies"?
It's been done -- nail polish that changes color in the form of Rohypnol...
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/s...
you're infertile.
Don't even try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfD4C2mKzUc
Interesting to see an old conspiracy theory chestnut to become technically feasible.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
Stupid n1ggers are subliminally in love with Trump
I thought "roughies" must be the opposite of "smoothies".
This way the control will be complete. You are what you eat.
They break too easily.
At least when I get forced to have one, I can be pretty creative.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.