Injectable Computers Broadcast From Inside The Body

Professors David Blaauw and David Wenzloff of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, are designing millimeter-scale, ultra-low-power sensing systems that can be injected into the body through a syringe. Unlike other similarly-sized radios, these new devices are able to broadcast through the human body to an external receiver. The technology came from the group of researchers in the Michigan Integrated Circuits Lab that was responsible for the Michigan Micro Mote (M3), currently the world’s smallest computer.