14 DAY TRIAL // Let's face it, if fiction authors were able to think about operations that inserted electrodes into your brain even before “doctors” and scientists actually started doing it, it was just a matter of time before injectable ones came true.
As creepy as it seems, a research team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Medicine of Tsinghua University have done it.
Well, they haven't actually created injectable 3D printed electrodes. They created a patent for them.
With Jinyuan Liu as lead author, they published a paper in which they described how to make “three-dimensional medical electronics inside the biological body through sequential injections of biocompatible packaging material and liquid metal ink.”
The paper is titled “Injectable 3-D Fabrication of Medical Electronics at the Target Biological Tissues” and might be the basis for future medical techniques. Hopefully not mind-control and brain damage too, though.