News JVTech Here’s surely the most WTF-connected item of the year. And yet it has a real benefit
You don’t need a smartphone to equip yourself with a chip and bluetooth, why not put it directly on your tooth. This company is developing this concept that could change everything for the healthcare sector.
A chip in the tooth, never seen before
I’m sure you can name ten films or series with at least one technically modified character. A human with special abilities acquired through artificial help. Science fiction is over when it becomes reality, and that’s almost the case for this tiny chip that could work wonders.
Laura health is an American company specializing in the development of health monitoring tools. The team finds part of the observation that Saliva is an extremely important fluid as it can diagnose more than 1000 diseases. Checking the latter regularly is therefore an issue that Lura members have understood.
Technological innovation relies heavily on the miniaturization of existing tools and offering them new uses. GAFAM advances have been enjoyed by the general public for many years and it is high time health benefited too. Anyway, Lura made it. This little chip, not yet marketed, is equipped with a Cortex M33 processor specially designed for real-time monitoring. It’s the size of a pencil tip and comes with Bluetooth (Low-Emission version) which can transfer the recovered data to a smartphone.
Lura offers several versions with a mount for teeth on which the chip will be placed, the most interesting is when it is Poses directly with glue hidden behind a molar. As so often, we take the combo Bluetooth + smartphone + application, done. It’s a lot less attractive than a flashy Apple Watch, but this kind of project opens doors to making the lives of doctors and healthcare workers easier.
The great advantage of this chip: autonomy
If we’ve known how to miniaturize this type of technology for a long time, why didn’t we do it sooner? Quite simply out of concern for autonomy. The development of a tiny chip that sits behind the molar to monitor saliva composition in real time and analyze more than 1,000 potential diseases is all well and good. But if the device dies after a day, its usefulness will be seriously affected.
The latest MG27 chip consumes much less, so it can last much longer. So doctors are in heaven and should soon be able to tape this little object to their patients.
Currently, the chip is still in development and has not yet received US approval for its commercialization. According to The Verge, the FDA should grant Lura Health a free pass see their products arrive within a year and a half at most.
