The sci-fi view would be miniature devices that would lodge in the capillaries and record from close-by neurons and transmit that data through the skull.
The advances in VLSI, sensors and wireless communication technologies have provided us with miniature devices that have low computational power and communication capabilities.
But unmanned aircraft are expected to be widely permitted in coming years, raising fears about misuse of miniature devices that can carry cameras which capture video and still images by day and by night.
In the works: After designing the blue octopus logo for Chumby Industries, Kare is working on user-interface graphics and packaging for the company's hand-held miniature devices that display news, photos, music, weather, sports scores and more through a wireless Internet connection.
They developed a way of growing uncultured bacteria in their natural environment using a miniature device called an iChip that can isolate and help grow single cells.
But Justin Williams, a biological engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is developing a miniature ECoG device that could be fed through a small hole in the skull and then unfurl to cover a larger area of the cortical surface.
Writing in Nature, Mickle et al.4 describe a potential way of tackling this problem — a miniature implanted device that can sense and control bladder function in rats.
But, sensing that Morgan had "irresistible" information, he let him proceed and, with his permission, even used a miniature recording device that he had brought with him.
We created and clinically tested a novel miniature medical device that targets overcoming these limitations.
Microprocessor, any of a type of miniature electronic device that contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry necessary to perform the functions of a digital computer's central processing unit.
