Proteus Biomedicals, a company in California, has developed an intelligent pill that sends digital signals to an external receiver after being swallowed.
The pill still works as an ordinary drug that a patient might take to control a health issue such as heart trouble or a psychiatric disorder.
But it also has digestible sensors that are made of food products and are activated by stomach fluids. Once swallowed, the sensors can send a digital signal through the body to a receiver. The receiver date- and time-stamps, decodes, and records information about the drug and the dosage. It also measures and reports heart rate, activity, and respiratory rate.
Pretty amazing.
Qualcomm is helping connect the receivers, designed as small bandage style skin patches, to 3G phone networks, USA Today reported recently. Patient information can then be sent to hospitals, doctors or relatives.
"We believe we have figured out a way for us to bring this to market with a wide variety of pharmaceutical products," perhaps by 2011 or 2012, Proteus CEO Andy Thompson told USA Today.
The cost will be fractions of a penny per pill, the article reported.
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This is just f--- up.... How does it stay in you? stick to your gut lining? causing a tumor?
"Intelligent Pill" intelligent pill? WTF? People use the term intelligent for the most inane sh*.
any ways...: don't trust that food the FBI offers you... could have a tracker in it!
a patch relays digital info about your insides....
well... well.. welll......
when we buy clothes, often there is a hidden rfi tag in them. books, etc have these tags...
but now our food?
of course, we don't see this as food now... but as a possible monitor method for doctors to give patients...
but, well, darpa etc find out about this stuff years before we do... so, who's to say we don't have lil' digital worms in us now? and our cell phones are monitoring our heart beats?
I have often noticed a kind of syncronicity to my heart and mood, and the glitches of my phone calls and even my computer online...
They don't have far to go, before the ghost in the shell, with all it's firewalls in our gastrointestines is a reality...
only the top paid agents will have even a slight grasp of who is in them.
and, even these (according to GITShell) will be under constant (if not more) pressure from outside hackers...
This is a good thing. Paranoia helps no one shadoan. We are not turning back the clock, we are moving into wonderful times with real progress for real people. To everyone else--this is the future so it is good to see public presentation of the information. Change is real, and it is now so let's find new and positive ways to work, together.
What's wrong with the nurse in the doctor's office? This is what they do! There goes all those jobs.
actually i ve a question. will it get digested after finishing its task??? if so then what happens to the microprocessor that has been built inside it
Hi this is pranav.I have read this article actually the intelligentpill cannot be digested but it is passed within1 to 3 days through solid wastematerial.
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