[HN Gopher] This implanted microchip may one day control your sleep
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This implanted microchip may one day control your sleep
 
Author : type0
Score  : 19 points
Date   : 2021-09-20 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
 
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| vangelis wrote:
| No thank you.
 
| bruce343434 wrote:
| I'm skeptical but intrigued. A lot of what is put forth in this
| article just seems like 3 brainstorm sessions by middle
| management, written out and editorialized.
 
| rand846633 wrote:
| Can't wait to use this while flying on an airplane. This will
| basically make flying like teleportation, just that you also
| arrive freshly sleep at the destination.
 
  | app4soft wrote:
  | > _This will basically make flying like teleportation_
  | 
  | And if airplane would be in crash it would be easy to switch
  | OFF all on a board before plane crashed on ground.
 
  | qzw wrote:
  | Plus they can pack the passengers into little compartments as
  | in _The 5th Element_ or Japanese capsule hotels.
 
| wyager wrote:
| I'm not putting anything in my body unless its entire codebase
| and hardware design are public and extensively formally verified.
| Current medical device standards are clearly insufficient and
| off-base as they allow for garbage like pacemakers with
| vulnerable Bluetooth stacks.
 
  | xuhu wrote:
  | Augustus Cole from that X-Files episode would like to disagree.
 
  | slownews45 wrote:
  | Fair enough.
  | 
  | The VAST majority of users do not care, and many programmers
  | (myself included) do not believe that formal verification is
  | likely for many larger or more complex systems if they have a
  | tech stack element somewhere in mix (probably not on the device
  | itself but perhaps interfacing / programming it).
  | 
  | We will see who wins in the market, the open source player with
  | a public and extensive FORMAL verification (NOT EASY!) or the
  | closed source player, first to market, sales reps going to Drs
  | offices etc
 
| rdtwo wrote:
| More like a subscription model the less you pay the worse you're
| sleep
 
| Apocryphon wrote:
| The bit in Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_ where you can just
| regularly hypnotize someone (at least in the military) to fall
| asleep seems less invasive.
 
| thaufeki wrote:
| I_HATE_THE_ANTICHRIST.png
 
| scohesc wrote:
| I can't wait for the future of body modification and the reverse
| engineering/hacking that follows.
| 
| Everyone and their dog gets one of these chips because they're so
| cheap, easy, and ubiquitous that you can walk right down to your
| doctor's office and have it installed same day, covered by your
| insurance!
| 
| Then some black-hat hackers come by and pull a Captain Crunch and
| blast a specific frequency at the highest power possible and it
| immediately makes everyone with the chip go to sleep.
 
  | qzw wrote:
  | > the messages traveling to and from the hub will be encrypted,
  | the user will have to somehow verify any command they give the
  | hub, and the data will only be stored on the device itself and
  | not in any kind of cloud. Most importantly, the implantable
  | device couldn't be used without the armband: remove it and the
  | implant would become useless.
  | 
  | And also:
  | 
  | > "should anything go wrong" the person wearing the device
  | would "swallow a pill that would kill the cells inside the chip
  | only, leaving the rest of their body unaffected."
  | 
  | I wouldn't be the first person to sign up for this, but it
  | looks like they at least did do some basic thinking about
  | security.
 
  | jcun4128 wrote:
  | In comes me the anti-virus/hacking salesman
 
| yazaddaruvala wrote:
| My first thought for any implant: What's the power source?
| 
| Or do I need to plug myself "in" every few days?
 
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