This reminds me of a project that Texas Instruments was working on a number of years back. They invested in and helped fund the development of a wire that could

This reminds me of a project that Texas Instruments was working on a number of years back. They invested in and helped fund the development of a wire that could work suspended in fluids. The startup that invented it and was further developing it was doing the work to develop an optical implant that would allow the blind to see. TI didn't care about helping the blind re/gain their eye sight, they just cared about getting their hands on a wire that didn't short circuit in fluids. Not sure whatever became of that project...