Sensor Wraps Itself Round the Brain

Not only an interesting & potentially significant medical advancement, it turns out that shrink-wrapped brains stay fresh up to 3 times longer than unwrapped brains.

A few unanswered questions here, for me. First of all, this sure sounds like a one way street. As in, once it's installed it would be impossible to remove. That means there's no recourse if in fact there's a reason to get rid of it. Doesn't say much for the chance of getting a "volunteer" to test it out.

The oops factor is pretty large if you incorporate stimulators programmed to respond to the sensors. What if there's an error. The same gear can induce (not just 'cure') epileptic seizures and in fact a variety of bad bad stuff. Yes it is probably remotely programmable. But even adjustment of parameters does not make stimulators tolerable for all patients afaik.

In fact, this seems more and more like, the ultimate "mind control" gear: designed to sense brain activity, and respond with a little old shock to the brain. This is the gear that can automate torture. And that raises the question: what would stop the purveyors of this stuff from using it on unsuspecting human beings, or selling/ farming it out to organized crime for their human trafficking operations, or to some extremist group for hate crime, etc etc. ?? The U Illinois crowd are, after all, pioneers of "injectable" stuff. It's all drive-thru ready. The motive to "test the untestable" alone is worth billions to the industry. Add opportunities for organ sales, etc... well!

I suspect the answer is "nothing would stop them" - because I fail to see how they would ever be caught. What are the chances of this stuff being noticed on a medical imaging test? In an autopsy? even?

I think it's time for a little transparency in the device developers' kingdom. Show us what this gear is going to look like on an xray or CT, and then we'll decide how many military and police surveillance personnel should be breathing down your neck...

first off, it would appear that this would require a pretty large incision in order to cover the entire brain, second I can't see how a surface electrode will be able to reach deep brain structures where many epileptic seizures originate.

These people do installation by injection already. Whether the term is "small drilled hole" "canula" "through a catheter" "hypodermic" the principle is the same. For a flat piece, I assume it is folded ("compressed") in such a way as to unfold/expand on ejection from the pipe. I doubt you could shrink wrap a whole brain with one hole, but hey. Those holes are pretty small. Bit of apatite, cleans right up.