Monday 28 March 2011

Scientist Talk - Dylan

Niquita's cousin Dylan is a bio-chemist and today he talked to us about the capabilities of the tardigrade in terms of the body and how we could ultimately use the body as the device.

He said that basically the tardigrade was not a plausible idea as we would be ingesting the technology every time and our stomach acid would destroy it. The tardigrade is also too big to soak through the skin so it would be hard to implement.

He showed us this project of the blood or sweat battery http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/blood-battery.htm which is a small chip implanted into the skin which feeds off bodily functions to create electricity. If we could utilise this technology some how to "power" our connection this would be plausible. There is also the option of a paper battery which could open a new set of possibilities. http://www.seminarprojects.com/Thread-paper-battery-full-report
http://www.livescience.com/1782-paper-batteries-powered-blood.html

He also said we could some how had the transmitters on protein cells. The idea behind it being if the somehow drank or soaked up the "switch" to connect the transmitter to the blood battery we could create a circuit that logs on and logs off according to how long the connection lasts. http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS2/projects/vun/PPS96proj_Vun.htm The cells would alter to suit the technology. It would be bound to our protein and essential become apart of us.

We liked this and sort of continued to come up with ideas about hackers using magnetic fields and EMP's to log people off - the idea of magnetic warfare. This plays on our whole idea of proper and if it is possible to keep everything "proper." We would have to look into induce the water in a different way to tardigrades but still using the idea of water as the vehicle for the network.




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