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Title: MicroTransponder, Inc'


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MicroTransponder, Inc.
  • Confidential, by Will Rosellini, JD, MBA, MS
    President and CEO 2/8/2008

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Our Cyborg Vice President
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Currently available
30,000 people
4
Currently available
16 channel rechargeable implantable pulse
generator for treatment of chronic pain ANS
Plano, Texas
5
Currently available
Cyberonics - Houston, Texas Vagus Nerve
Stimulation Epilepsy, Depression 32,000 patients
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Disadvantages
  • 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
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Cochlear Implant
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Neuroplasticity
High
Pitch
Low
Cochlea
Cortex
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Problem
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
  • Vagal Nerve Stimulation

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Abnormal Map
High
VNS
Low
VNS
Cochlea
Cortex
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Restored Map
High
Low
Cochlea
Cortex
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Normal Topography in somatosensory cortex
  • Thumb
  • Index
  • Middle
  • Ring
  • Little

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Amputation-Induced Cortical Plasticity
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MicroTransponder Summary
  • MicroTransponder Inc. is a medical device company
    with intellectual property that enables a unique
    neurostimulation system for the treatment of
    neurological disease

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Artificial Intelligence
  • Program trading AI
  • 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

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Google 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.

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Simulating the Brain
  • Blue 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)

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Quantum Computing
  • Dwave
  • 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.

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Smartphones
  • Next 10 years.
  • 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
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