The 60-gigahertz radar chip built to stop your car is now being pointed at sleeping chests, and a hot-car safety rule is paying to make it cheap enough for cribs, nightstands, and hospital beds.
For sixty years, MEG required a copper-and-steel shielded room. The latest atomic-vapor magnetometer patents are quietly making the vault optional.
Six 2005 society-scale predictions, graded against 2026 patent grants, FDA rules, GDP data, and Meta’s Reality Labs balance sheet.
219 US patents for devices that read biomarkers from sweat — a category that barely existed before 2010. Half were granted in the last five years.