Beyond Fitbit: 'Neural dust' puts invisible cyborg tech deep inside you

August 3, 2016

New, tiny sensors could create superpowerful fitness trackers, move prosthetics forward and lead to treatments for conditions like epilepsy.

Monitoring your heart rate and VO2 max (maximum oxygen volume) with the latest fitness tracker is nifty, but researchers are developing new, tiny tech to keep track of just about any organ, nerve or muscle in real time. If that's not futuristic-cyborg-cool enough for you, the so-called "neural dust" could also be used to stimulate nerves and muscles, ushering in a new era of "electroceutical" treatment for things like epilepsy or inflammation.

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