You are the Wireless Connection

Conversing with Scientists.

An idea for the future of a wider network communation we developed was through researching blood batteries. Our technology we were researching changed after the news of the tardigrada. The Tardigrades were too big to be able to use in the bloodstream housing carbon nano tubes. We furthered to design a system while conversing to Canterbury Bio Chemist Honours Graduate Dylan Gifford for the possibility of creating a protein which encased a certain blood battery that is being developed currently. The protein will house the battery meaning that potentially the future digital citizens could have one injection of these proteins straight into the blood system.
A liquid will be designed that has housed in it special nutrience that once is digested will alter the protein so that the ions turn the battery on within the protein. hence making a wireless connection be turned on inside the protein which the bloodstream is feeding. This system we designed so that a closer connection could be formed within digital connectivity.
When the blood sugar/nutrience levels drop once the liquid has digested the wireless connection will turn off until more nutrience is consumed.
This way you could control the connectivity of how much wireless network you want available to use daily.
This will be an efficient way of tackling problems of reception due to weather extremes and other connection difficulties involving routers and those silly memory sticks that give of wireless signals etc. you are the connector to the digital life.

Below is some of the statements Dylan constructed with a more formal approach and scientific terms.


Blood batteries were developed by a group of scientists at Rensseiaer polytechnic which are able to charge themselves using electrolytes found in the human body. The battery is consists of 90% cellulose impregnated by carbon nanotubules and electrolytes (replenished by the bloodstream or sweat) and are extremely thin and are therefore flexible and relatively durable. The batteries are small enough that they can be placed under the skin without discomfort and are able to act as both a high energy batteruy and a high power capictor (large burst energy). It is thought that production of the batteries can be achieved by mass producing large thin sheets of the material which could then be cut to match needed size and shape. These batterioes could theoretically be placed in the human blood and within it they would be able to provide an infinite amount of power to a device as long as they had acces to electrolytes in the bloodstream.

http://www.livescience.com/1782-paper-batteries-powered-blood.html
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/blood-battery.htm

Protein conformational change

Due to the necessity for certain proteins and enzymes to alter their activity changes in the conformation of a protein are able to occur which can allow for a proteins activity or binding affinity to be increased or decreased or their function changed. The need for these conformational changes however must be relayed to the protein through a mechanism of which there are several. Allosteric regulation involves the use of allosteric inhibitors or activators (inhibitors decrease activity, activators increase activity), also called effector molecules, which are able to bind to the protein to cause the change inconformation and/or protein activity. Effector molecules can range from small molecules, such as dicoumarin compounds, to large ligands and neurotransmitters such as GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid. These molecules will be in close proximity to the protein in question as a direct or indirect result of a stimuli change within a cell or organism allowing for the effector to bind to the protein in question.

It is imaginable that you could create a protein which housed a transmitter which upon binding an effector molecule would be able to cause a conformational change within the protein causing the movement of an atom or amino acid, which was able to freely exchange electrons, into a position where it was able to complete the circuit of the transmitter effectively turning it on. The effector would have to be very small to allow access into the blood stream, although a smoking or inhalation product would allow for transfer into the bloodstream with greater ease. The effector would eventually leave the bloodstream wherein, as long as the protein/ effector binding affinity was not too high, the effector would dissociate from the device and leave the bloodstream deactivating the device.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/11/10/0910757106.short
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosteric_regulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABAA_receptor
www.livescience.com