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

[Emlyn]

and... obviously I didn't read Robert's reply to Damien's post carefully enough.

So the subdermal implant would need a bacteria that could feed on
blood and produce harmless biproducts and electricity. You might want
to be careful about making sure they can't reproduce inside the body,
or it might get upsetting in case of a leak...

Anyway, from there it's the same as my previous post.

On 01/02/06, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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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