Move Over Wearables, Here Comes Swallowables

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I guess "swallowables" is now a thing. Do these things analyze and diagnose you from the inside out? Do they take samples and send the data back to the doctors? Nope! All these "swallowables" do is keep track of when you took your medicine. Ummm, okay?

"We have a small, food-particle-sized piece of silicon, an integrated circuit, and on one side of that circuit is a film of copper, on the other side a very thin film of magnesium," explained Proteus Digital Health co-founder Dr. George Savage. "When you swallow, these minerals get wet and two dissimilar metals in aqueous contact define a battery, so you become a battery." From there, the powered pill sensor sends a signal to a patch worn on the body, which sends data via Bluetooth to a phone or tablet and on to the cloud for a doctor or caregiver.
 
They already have a camera that you swallow to check out your colon...doesn't seem like much of a stretch to create more useful items like this. Better than being probed manually...

This would be awesome for patients with mental health issues who have trouble taking their meds, so you could verify that they take them without having to physically be there and see if they did or not.
 
Even patients without mental issues can forget if they already took one of the dozens of pills that they have to take each week. While most medicines would not need one of these trackers, in the case of certain heart medication which can be deadly if skipped and deadly if taken twice, it could really be useful.
 
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Forget about swallowables, the next big thing is PENETRABLES.
 
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