Drugs just where you need them with the iPill

Pills for ills and bellyaches

By Jo Best, 12 November 2008 16:00

A delivery location can be loaded onto the iPill's microprocessor by way of a control program.

The program can then instruct the iPill how to drop its drugs – in a burst or released slowly, for example – as well as the location in the gut.

Other data, including body temperature, can be analysed by the iPill and transmitted back to a control unit outside the body via the pill's wireless transceiver. The unit can then amend the pill's instruction's accordingly.

Photo credit: Philips

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  1. 1. Paul Henry

    Can they be recycled?

  2. 2. Karen Challinor

    in old money this thing is a half inch by one inch !

    and we are supposed to swallow this ?

    I think I'll wait for the smaller version thanks

  3. 3. anonymous

    Is is re-usable? Good luck retrieving it. Yucky-poo!

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