This measures the electrical activity of the wearer's brain, in much the same way as some machines used for medical and research proposes, and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed.

In the shadow of malaria's many fatalities, the doctors of the research unit sometimes take turns working around the clock and hoping that one day soon, a vaccine will be found.

Then it generates a report that lists how many "ticks" each of these units of code received (how many times a system-clock interrupt occurred when that particular unit of code was running).