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New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt
- lordlarm 16y agoIt will be intresting to follow the development of video/image/network-technology in collaboration with nano-technology in the future. As stated in the article the bad side is surveillance and privacy - but the aspect of small cool devices gets the geek-gene in me to cheer at the same time.
- webXL 16y agoIf it really is that cheap, citizens will be able to spy on the government and large corporations, assuming the technology isn't outlawed for concerns about citizens spying on each other.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoCitizens spying on each other isn't what concerns lawmakers. In at least Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland it's illegal to film police officers doing their thing - although I should point out that protecting law enforcement officers isn't the explicit reason: "Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland are among the 12 states in which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as with TV news crews, it is obvious to all that recording is underway." http://gizmodo.com/#!5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns http://gizmodo.com/#!5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns In any case, pretty sure sneaking a camera into a private board meeting is as illegal as it is for me to sneak one into your bedroom.
- webXL 16y agoYeah, those anti-police surveillance laws are pretty lame. My only point about being able to spy on the government and large corporations was just an illegal counter measure to potential illegal actions by the usual suspects. I would never condone such behavior ;)
- JonnieCache 16y ago1 nanometre = 0.000001 millimetres. This is not nanotech.
- dr_ 16y agoIt's nice to note that the camera is inexpensive and as such disposable - but if you think hospitals are going to reduce the rates they charge because their costs have gone down, don't count on it. There's a reason they're still charging $6 for one Tylenol, and costs aren't it.
- billybob 16y agoSpeaking as a complete non-expert who has just listened to some economic podcasts about health care, there's not a reason they charge $6 for Tylenol. There's more like 100 intertwined reasons. Healthcare economics is a nightmare of complexity. I'm not sure that it has to be, but it is. My guess is that the complexity of the thing is itself one of the biggest problems. Kind of like how the US tax code has, in countless efforts to encourage this or discourage that, been made so complicated that an entire profession has arisen for trying to navigate it. Every dollar spent trying to determine how much tax you owe is pure waste. The healthcare industry is similarly full of waste. A friend of mine works at a company whose whole reason for existence is to help doctors determine the correct industry codes to put on their bills so that insurance companies will pay them (the codes are different for each insurance carrier). The fact that this is necessary is outrageous.
- dr_ 16y agoWith the new ICD schedule arriving soon, an entire new set of codes will have to be learned, requiring physicians to become even more dependent on companies like the one your friend works for.
- joeycfan 16y agoGreat - how soon before this sucker is surveilling us?