Posted by ketyung
on Mar/27/2008
at 8:14 am
Molecular communication – this term might sound little new to most of you. The Japanese cellular network provider, NTT DoCoMo is moving into direction of using communication technology and biochemistry to transmit the biochemical conditions of living organisms such as excitement, stress, emotion and even disease possibly over its cellular networks.
Sounds abstract? In short, once this technology is successfully implemented, your feeling of stress, anger, happiness will be able to transmit via cellular or other wireless networks to many thousands miles away to a medical specialist for better advice and further analysis.
It might be possible that this data to be transmitted to your friends or your significant others. So, they’ll probably be able to know you might be in stressful or worst condition that they’ll need to rush over to give you a hand.
The first so-called successful research carried out on molecular communication is by NTT DoCoMo – the Japanese mobile service provider together with Professor Kazuo Sutoh and Associate Professor Shoji Takeuchi from University of Tokyo. They’ve successfully demonstrated the world’s first molecular delivery system for molecular communication.
The experiment has confirmed that their proposed delivery system is feasible to transport specific molecules using artificially synthesized DNAs and chemically energized motor proteins, typically found in muscles and nerve cells, which are capable of moving autonomously by converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
The very few attempts of applications once the molecular delivery system successfully implemented would be in medicine and healthcare. It maybe possible to have a mobile phone equipped with a biochip that could capture a drop of sweat and directly analyze the biomolecules in it to determine the stress or diseases. So, the health data captured by the biochip could then be transmitted to medical specialist via the mobile phone using conventional wireless technology for further analysis.
Besides used in medical and healthcare. The biochip seems to have great potential to be used in fields of environment such as water analysis and even entertainment such as fortune telling. Yes, the fortune teller would be able to capture your stress data by having you to put a drop of sweat on the test pad of your mobile phone where the biochip is connected. From that on, he’ll be able to analyze whether you’re in highly stressful condition or excited to predict whether you’ll burn down all your cash or grow richer in the next few months! And you’ll then receive an SMS for the result of your destiny!
via [FarEastGizmo]
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