KAIST officials say that their solution can alleviate personal-area
network concerns by taking them inside the body, thereby reducing power
consumption. The chip, KAIST claims, has signals that are wideband but
lower-impulse than their currrent counterparts, which do the exact
opposite. According to Seong-Jun Song, a KAIST professor, the chips
achieve data rates of up to 2 megabits a second but uses up less than
10 microwatts of power.

KAIST officials stressed that the chip was merely a prototype and that
achieving a reality based on that prototype was not possible overnight.
However, their suggestions did raise a few eyebrows.

Among the other presentations at the International Solid State Circuits
Conference was one focusing on a brain activity monitor chip that sends
data to monitors wirelessly. The presentation, made by officials at the
University of Utah, expressed their ultimate goal, to manufacture a
chip that can control prosthetic limbs using brain waves so that
quadriplegics can have a low-power way to help move replacement arms
and legs.