Title: MicroTransponder, Inc'
1MicroTransponder, Inc.
- Confidential, by Will Rosellini, JD, MBA, MS
President and CEO 2/8/2008 -
2Our Cyborg Vice President
3Currently available
30,000 people
4Currently available
16 channel rechargeable implantable pulse
generator for treatment of chronic pain ANS
Plano, Texas
5Currently available
Cyberonics - Houston, Texas Vagus Nerve
Stimulation Epilepsy, Depression 32,000 patients
6Disadvantages
- Wires and Leads
- Body movement can cause lead
- migration and reoperation
- Lead fractures requires additional surgery
- Infection issues
- Battery
- Toxic to body
- Can fail and require surgery to replace
- Must be recharged frequently
- Visible lump in skin
Inside the body
Outside the body
BATTERY
WIRES / LEADS
CONTROL DEVICE
7Cochlear Implant
8Neuroplasticity
High
Pitch
Low
Cochlea
Cortex
9Problem
Solution
Auditory cortex Map Plasticity
Decreased attention span due to attention to
ringing
ACh
Nucleus Basalis
Tinnitus Synchronous Spontaneous Activity
Stress/Anxiety
LC
Auditory Cortex Map Reorganization
Cochlea
NTS
Hearing Loss or Noise Exposure
10Abnormal Map
High
VNS
Low
VNS
Cochlea
Cortex
11Restored Map
High
Low
Cochlea
Cortex
12Normal Topography in somatosensory cortex
13Amputation-Induced Cortical Plasticity
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15MicroTransponder Summary
- MicroTransponder Inc. is a medical device company
with intellectual property that enables a unique
neurostimulation system for the treatment of
neurological disease
16Artificial Intelligence
- In 2006 at the London Stock Exchange, over 40 of
all orders were entered by algo traders, with 60
predicted for 2007 - Half of all financial transactions in the world
and 80 in the USA. - 30 billion per year in RD
17Google Ambitions
- Google sees search as essentially a basic form of
artificial intelligence. - A year ago, Google executives said the company
had achieved just 5 of its complete vision of
search. - Google's search engine will eventually have to
know what people are thinking, how to interpret
language, even the way users' brains operate.
18Simulating the Brain
- Currently they have simulated one column of a
neocortex (of a rat) with 10,000 neurons and 30
million synapses using a 22.8 teraflop
supercomputer. - (A human neocortex column has 60,000 neurons)
19Quantum Computing
- DWAVE adiabatic quantum computers could reach 512
to 1000 qubits and performance superior to
classical computers in 2008 - Successful development of quantum computers
would accelerate the development of molecular
nanotechnology with superior molecular simulation
and modeling.
20Smartphones
- Teraflop class smartphones that are constantly
charged with gigabit connections seems likely. - Network to quantum computers and supercomputers
of all types for remote processing. - Nvidia Tesla multi-teraflop GPGPU's and AMDs
GPGPU