She wants to count up our brain pulses, watch our temperature change in real time and observe how we breathe. This is different from the health-monitoring tech inside consumer Fitbits and smart watches that can count each step and monitor every heartbeat. She likes to think of her ideas for patches, needles and pills as Google translate 'buttons' for our health Her tiny, unobtrusive tools won't need batteries either. That could be helpful when treating neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease, which affects nerves deep inside the brain. With that kind of thinking, she believes there's no limit to where the tiny translators might travel next.

Source: Forbes March 21, 2017 19:29 UTC