Existing technologies should easily allow us to merge Man and modern communications in a seamless way

1. Man-Mobile Deep Merge
Technologies available in 2016 should allow man and modern
communications to merge seamlessly

2. Using technology as it stands
today, it should be possible to
embed a deconstructed version of
today’s mobile phone into the
human body, in a way that it
almost seems like a natural
extension of our senses.
It’ll also make ordinary humans seem
superhuman. And can radically
change the lives of those with
disabilities.
Another upside is that we’ll never
have to carry or explicitly charge
devices again.

3. The following slides show the
components which need to be
dropped, technologies to be used and
the means of deployment.

4. Key Component to
Drop
The Display
A smartphone’s display is a significant
drain on a device’s battery life. We get
rid of it. This would mean no graphics
processors, no touch controllers or
panels.
All interactions will be non-visual;
predominantly aural and vocal.

5. Key Technologies
Of Use
Low-power radios
Bone Conduction
Hearing & Sub-dermal Implants
Wireless Inductive charging
Mature, off the shelf offerings from
these 4 spaces are all that are needed
to make Deep-Merge happen.

6. Enabling Deep-
Merge
Low Power Wireless Radios
Wireless technologies like Bluetooth
Low Energy(BLE) or other low power
radio communication modes will play
a key role.
Today, it’s possible to pick up radio
beacons which can run for 2 years, off
a single button cell. Some reference
radio beacon designs can run for 10
years.

7. Fully submersible bone conduction based
communication devices have been in use
for more than 10 years.
While they inherently offer high-fidelity
audio & excellent noise cancellation,
several retail versions today are fully
submersible and lose no functionality until
20 meters of depth.
Enabling Deep-
Merge
Bone conduction

8. These have been available since 10 years
and so far are mostly deployed to
overcome disability.
Enabling Deep-
Merge
Fully implantable
middle ear devices
Source: http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/implantable-
auditory-technologies-13250
Bone conduction
communication
variants of these,
could be augmented
with inductive
charging capacities
and implanted
similarly.

9. Several motherboards today are narrow, thin
pieces of PCBs. By dropping motherboard
components not needed for Deep Merge, the
motherboard size can be further reduced. This
will create no perceivable cosmetic feature.
Most sub-dermal implants are currently
cosmetic. But a motherboard with flex/bend can
be implanted at the back of the skull, while
protected by a plate/flat packaging.Enabling Deep-
Merge
Sub-dermal implants

10. Limb extremities will host inductive charging
enabled sensor modules needed for activity
monitoring. (pressure, motion, gyro, heart rate)
Besides improving activity identification, leading
to better fitness tracking, it will also enable
advanced hands-free gaming with conventional
platforms.Enabling Deep-
Merge
Sub-dermal implants

11. Sub-dermal NFC implants could help us
wirelessly share business cards, personal
preferences, data and more with a gesture as
simple as a hand-shake.
Business card info could be directly read out in
the ear & doctors could be immediately warned
of a patient’s allergies and even provided with
real time heart rate data.
Enabling Deep-
Merge
Sub-dermal implants

12. Vocal - Microphone operates in an always on-
mode and starts a session upon a spoken
identifier. (Echo/Alexa/Siri)
Clanking of jaws - The gentle striking of lower
jaw against the upper makes a very distinct, clear
sound. Two such clanks(picked up by dental
microphone and the vibration sensor) can start
the session or indicate yes/no.
Tapping(Head/ear) - Vibration or audio sensors,
sense the tap and start the session.
Other interactions/communication permissions
could be created on a simple or user
programmable combination of these.
Completing Deep-
Merge
Interaction

13. Wireless charging modules (central or
distributed) could be part of all implanted
components, and all of these could get charged
while we’re asleep. Your sleep helps you re-
charge. Literally.
Completing Deep-
Merge
Wireless Inductive
Charging In what seems almost lifelike, when an
individual hasn’t rested for a long duration, even
his communication capabilities would drop as
the devices(and the individual) haven’t had the
time to re-charge.

14. Communications will change for good (again)
ESP Like
One could simply start the
interaction, dial a number,
speak to someone and
hang-up, all without ever
touching a device.
Enhanced Interactions
Sensors with feedback
enabled could teach us
new skills, provide
navigational cues through
vibrations.
Enhanced Privacy
Directions, weather,
answers to queries will be
received directly in the ear.

15. Deep merge will also significantly reduce device glut.
Screens, game controllers, gesture recognition devices can all work off of sensors
embedded within us.
Public screen kiosks can enable us to view information pushed to a screen, in case a
higher visual information needs to be assimilated.
Adding this level of interactivity to existing VR & AR would open up more possibilities.

16. All ideas here are based on mature technologies available today.
No challenges here are insurmountable.
And any which arise, can be solved in multiple ways.

17. Technology
Timeline
The mobile technology timeline needs a
new milestone, and evolution needs a
leg up.

18. 1.9 Million
years ago
Fully bipedal humans
evolved
1997
Mobile goes mass
market
2006
Launch of first 3G
smartphone
2013
64-bit compute comes
to smartphones
2017
First man & mobile
deep merge

19. Next steps?
Making it happen.
Companies involved in bionics or
institutions involved in
bionic/implant research could create a
bionic, connected human.
Theoretically, a fully functional
implementation should be possible by
end of 2017.

20. Vinod Desai
@Desaivino
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