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In-Body WiFi Will Warn Doctors if You Have A Heart...

A sweet new use for WiFi has been proposed:  internal health monitors… in your body.  All I have to say to that is… awesome!

The same BlueTooth technology that allows you to use a wireless hands-free device with your cell phone is going to alerting the hospital when you have emergency health problems.

From the article:

If the “in-body network” recorded that the person had suddenly collapsed, it would send an alert, via a nearby base station at their home, to a surgery or hospital.

Seriously, this sounds like something out of some futuristic sci-fi movie, but it’s not that big a leap.  We’ve been keeping an eye on the vital signs of astronauts for decades.  This just takes the technology  inside the body, Fantastic Voyage style (although without the shrunken human beings in a space ship part).

Now, if this so-called “in-body WiFi network” can also let my spleen surf the Internet and allow my lungs to place a VOIP call to the Psychic Friends Network… then it’ll be the completion of a life-long dream of mine.

Go here to read the full story on this new technology.