Scientists have developed a pacemaker that works without requiring surgery for battery replacement, using ultrasound waves
https://spectrum.ieee.org/pacemaker-and-ultrasound
Scientists have developed a pacemaker that works without requiring surgery for battery replacement, using ultrasound waves
https://spectrum.ieee.org/pacemaker-and-ultrasound
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Peer-reviewed article: [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01673-z.epdf](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01673-z.epdf)
Read the article; it’s talking about gene-editing people to be compatible with the tech.
I’m not sure how many people would want to be deliberately mutated to become susceptible to external interference with their heart rhythms?
And yes, I realize that conventional pacemakers already introduce vulnerabilities to things like magnetic fields. But at least those are devices that can be ripped out, as opposed to a permanent changes to one’s own cells.