A new level of cyborgery: ingesting circuit-encrusted chips into your guts.
Proteus' product consists of two parts: an ingestible sensor chip and an external band-aid-like patch. The chips are just 1mm square and 200 microns thick and are attached to pills with a bio-compatible glue. When swallowed the chips send a signal to the patch. The patch has accelerometers and amplifiers to track heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and body angle to determine if the patient is lying down or standing up.
That information is transmitted via Bluetooth to an online repository and can show how the body is responding to the drug...
The hacking and/or Gothic possibilities are vast (connected to the internet! and accessed by phones).
But it's only a matter of time before we hear old media/IT guys having fun: "Boy, my old Timex Sinclair had less memory than that little guy drifting through your intestines..."
All your intestines are belong to us.
Posted by: Veronica | December 09, 2008 at 11:55