[extropy-chat] Computing Power: Moore's Law keeps going and going and going

[Emlyn]

Hmm... there must be somewhere easier to get access to the circulatory
system. Maybe the lungs for instance... could you tap into it inside
the lungs without as much drama (excepting of course for getting into
the lungs in the first place.

Or, what might work better would be an implant somewhere in the body,
under the skin, that transduces (god that word could be so wrong,
please guess what I am trying to say if it is) power through the skin
to appropriate equipment on the outside. The reverse of how the newest
artificial hearts work (which I think zap the power through the skin
from outside to inside).

So it requires that you get an implanted power generator. But then
people get liposuction, after all, which is probably a good deal more
invasive.

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Emlyn

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On 27/01/06, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 05:06 PM 1/26/2006 -0500, Robert B. wrote:
>
> >Just filter the glucose out of your blood and circulate it into a bag
> >containing bacteria that utilize the glucose to produce light.  If you
> >make the bag into a transparent suit jacket you can glow in the dark while
> >losing weight.
>
> That's cool, of course, and lets you read under the blankets, if you're the
> sort of person who sleeps in his suit jacket, as most of us here surely
> are--but it can be a hassle, wearing clothes that require you to plug them
> in to an indwelling catheter stuck inside a major blood vessel. So messy to
> keep clean and bacteria-free. (I had a friend once with a colostomy; he
> spent an awful lot of time in the shower.)
>
> Damien Broderick
>
>
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