Justo que estábamos hablando de ésto el otro día!...


Foto meramente ilustrativa, el chip mide 2x2x0.7 cm
Sería como tener 4-6 micro SD´s aprox abajo de la piel.

Spoiler: 
A contraceptive computer chip that can be controlled by remote control has been developed in Massachusetts.The chip is implanted under a woman's skin, releasing a small dose of levonorgestrel, a hormone.
This will happen every day for 16 years, but can be stopped at any time by using a wireless remote control.
The project has been backed by Bill Gates, and will be submitted for pre-clinical testing in the US next year - and possibly go on sale by 2018.
The device measures 20mm x 20mm x 7mm and will be "competitively priced", its creators said.
Convenience factorTiny reservoirs of the hormone are stored on a 1.5cm-wide microchip within the device.
A small electric charge melts an ultra-thin seal around the levonorgestrel, releasing the 30 microgram dose into the body.
There are other types of contraceptive implant available, the researchers noted, but all require a trip to a clinic and an outpatient procedure in order to be deactivated.


"Someone across the room cannot re-programme your implant” Dr Robert Farra

"The ability to turn the device on and off provides a certain convenience factor for those who are planning their family," said Dr Robert Farra from MIT.

The next challenge for the team is to ensure the absolute security of the device to prevent activation or deactivation by another person without the woman's knowledge.
"Communication with the implant has to occur at skin contact level distance," said Dr Farra.
"Someone across the room cannot re-programme your implant.
"Then we have secure encryption. That prevents someone from trying to interpret or intervene between the communications."
Huge rangeThe same technology could be used to administer other drugs.
Simon Karger, head of the surgical and interventional business at Cambridge Consultants, said that implanted technology like this faces a range of challenges and risks.
But he added that overall "the value to the patient of these types of implant can be huge and we foresee a future in which a huge range of conditions are treated through smart implanted systems".Implanted devices could help people who forget to take medication at the correct timeThe innovation comes at a time when governments and organisations around the world have agreed to try to bring family planning to around 120 million more women by 2020.
This challenge opens the door to this kind of implant technology being used in areas where access to traditional contraceptives is limited - a bigger priority, argued Gavin Corley, a biomedical engineer.

"That's a humanitarian application as opposed to satisfying a first-world need," he told the BBC.


http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28193720

Ta la función "wow" es la de poder dosificar la droga levonorgestrel (que es la misma que actualmente se usa en algunas pastillas, implantes subcutaneos -el que me quería poner-, DIU combinados etc etc...).. pero ta dicen que te pueden modificar la dosis, y activarlo o desactivarlo por períodos SIN sacártelo (cosa que con los implantes actuales te lo tienen que sacar :S). Y como si fuera poco......... dura 16 años !!!!!!!!!!! o.O

Es prácticamente el promedio de tiempo que una mujer empieza a ser sexualmente activa y cuando -en promedio- decide tener hijos... o.o!!!!!!! :O!!!


Supongo igual que en esos 16 años salen 58950789 modelos más, y esperemos que también sea de uso universal el anticonceptivo masculino.... no?... ejemm ejemm.... pero es terrible noticia igual y estoy contenta!


Hoy por hoy están éstos fosforitos:



El cual me fui a colocar la semana pasada y me recomendaron que espere un tiempo prudencial de no mínimo de 6 meses para que lo prueben en las clínicas gratuitas primero.. o.O........ y analizar los efectos secundarios... así que BUE!!!!!!... para mi ya está ampliamente probado en otros países del primer mundo y lo vengo esperando hace mas de 5 años, pero ta.. supongo no es exactamente lo mismo acá que allá.......

Pero bueno, además piensen en la dosificación de otras drogas y que le podes ajustar o pausar la medicación a distancia, (digo ya existen bombas/depósitos similares, y hasta esos chips que te tragas y te queman todo con el medico pq le manda un informe si te tomaste o no las pastillas ..)



Pregunta para la comunidad masculina, uds se pondrían un coso de éstos (totalmente reversibles, ni efectos secundarios)¡?¡?