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In 1958, a plucky engineer used a Kiwi shoe polish tin[1] as a mold to create the world’s first implantable pacemaker[2]. Since then, others have copied the basic design of that early device—a battery and assorted circuitry encased in a sealed chamber—to produce an array of futuristic implantables: continuous glucose and blood pressure monitors, bowel and bladder stimulators, neurologic pulse generators, and enough biorobotic capsules and sensors[3] to make the Six Million Dollar Man[4] look more like the Tin Man. The implantable medical device sector is now thriving, with a market value projected to top $26 billion[5] by 2022. Cardiovascular devices still lead the category, with over 700,000 pacemakers[6] implanted ...