Pill powered by your own stomach acid sends data straight to your phone

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Been fed enough Ryzen hype yet? No?

Then swallow this.



A 'silver bullet' pill powered by your own stomach acid will send health data from inside your body to your phone.

It is believed the tiny pill could revolutionise medicine by constantly monitoring your health and administering medicine.

Researcher Dr Phillip Nadeau, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: 'The self-powered pill would monitor your vital signs from inside for weeks.

'It sits there making measurements and transmitting them to your phone.'

The creation was unveiled at the world's biggest science conference in Boston.


http://news.mit.edu/2017/engineers-harness-stomach-acid-power-tiny-sensors-0206

 

[Jetster]

For weeks? How does it keep from passing thru?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

In tests in pigs, the devices took an average of six days to travel through the digestive tract. While in the stomach, the voltaic cell produced enough energy to power a temperature sensor and to wirelessly transmit the data to a base station located 2 meters away, with a signal sent every 12 seconds



So i am hoping you dont need to shove your phone up your arse.

 

[Jetster]

How did they get a pig to use a phone?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

How did they get a pig to use a phone?

 

[Jetster]

touche

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

For weeks? How does it keep from passing thru?

This star-shaped capsule lodges in the gut for long-term drug dose, the same could be applied to this device because power dropped to almost nothing once it entered the small intestine. The small intestine contains less acid so the device wasn’t able to send data anywhere near as frequently.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/capsule-stays-in-the-gut-to-provide-drugs-for-weeks-or-months

 

[manofthem]

Interesting. I wonder what measurements because the article doesn't say much about that. Also, I wonder if this is a one time use type thing. While reusing could save money, I'd hate to have to sift through poop to fetch it out

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Prolonged energy harvesting for ingestible devices

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-016-0022

 

[dorsetknob]

Imagine having to go thru US Customs and border control after taking this
SPY SPY WE FOUND A SPY ship him to Guantanamo Bay
You just might get out of jail in time to collect your pention

 

[Jetster]

Temp, and administer medications I think was all it sais but I could see it doing blood sugar, cholesterol levels

Or maybe a WiFi access point (you have connected to Jetster's Colon)

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

(you have connected to Jetster's Colon

whats the arseword?

 

[BiggieShady]

I can already see it, you'll get a notification from your own turd saying "I got stuck around the pipe bend, there's a bunch of stuffed toilet paper and hair down here, bathroom is about to be flooded. Sorry."

 

[Jetster]

It's like I regret the day Dogs can Text message. "You have (36) messages"

 

[Vario]

nominate this thread for thread of the year

 

[Arjai]

People are staring at me. I nearly lost my coffee, through the nose, reading the pig uses phone! It just got better and I couldn't help making a spectacle of myself.

Thanks, now the patrons here think I am Crazy! Upshot of that? No one will ask ME for a cigarette, for a while!

 

[NdMk2o1o]

whats the arseword?

Surely you mean assword? Am hoping its gigashit as well, can't be doing with slow WiFi

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Surely you mean assword?

i was going to type ass however i am a traditionalist and a staunch purveyor of proper English . I believe that "ass" means donkey and was out of context.