Obama's executive order: computer chip implants to heal injured troops: President Obama is backing a unique program aimed at developing computer chip implants that monitor and augment an injured soldier's nervous system -- mitigating all sorts of maladies, ranging from arthritis to post-traumatic stress.
The computer chips are the purview of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency specializing in the development of high-tech military equipment. It was one of several programs green-lighted as part of the 19 executive actions announced yesterday by President Obama -- all of them aimed at boosting the mental health of U.S. troops and veterans.
The aim of the Electrical Prescriptions program, or ElectRx for short -- pronounced electrics -- is to develop an implantable biosensing device, that could tap into, monitor and control the body's organs and biosystems, so to predict and pacify problems at their onset.
