Friday, June 28, 2013

“Take two of these pills and they will e-mail me in the morning.”

They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin. But if your physician writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché: “Take two of these ingestible computers, and they will e-mail me in the morning.”
Although these tiny devices are not yet mainstream, some people are already swallowing them to monitor a range of health issues and wirelessly share this data with a doctor. 
For people in extreme professions, such as space travel, versions of these pills have been used for some time. But in the next year, your family physician may have them in his tool kit. 
Inside these pills are tiny sensors and transmitters. You swallow them; the devices go to the stomach and stay intact as they travel through the intestinal tract.
“You will — voluntarily, I might add — take a pill, which you think of as a pill but is in fact a microscopic robot, which will monitor your systems” and wirelessly transmit what is happening, Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, said last fall. “If it makes the difference between health and death, you’re going to want this thing.”
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