This mini-computer, still unnamed, had no way to monitor eye pressure in glaucoma patients with implantable devices, but its creators foresee a future in which everyone is crawling with little critters. Taking a little more than a cubic millimeter of space, cloth a pressure sensor, memory, battery, thin-film solar cells, the wireless radio, and all low-power microprocessor in a translucent container very low. The processor behind this little guy uses sleep "extreme" a way to take naps every 15 minutes and vacuum up to 5.3 nW when awake, and its battery runs 10 hours of light within an hour or average sunlight. Using the sensor for measuring eye pressure and radio to communicate with an external hard drive, the system continues to monitor the progression of glaucoma, without those pesky contacts.
Of course, mad scientists behind the wait for the day when a small device makes a lot, and each of us armed with hundreds of computer systems throughout the body - shows a bright future for cyborgdom.
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