Philips smart tablet

Philips has announced the completion of the smart pill project (iPill, Intelligent Pill) and the release of its prototype. A smart pill is a miniature device equipped with a microprocessor, a battery, a radio receiver, a pump, and a container for medication. She, if taken, can “reset” the medicine exactly where it is needed.



According to Philips, their smart pill is able to measure the acidity of the environment and, on the basis of the information received and analyzed, determines exactly where the digestive tract it is now. Thus, the medicine in the container is discharged exactly where needed.

Actually, there is an amateurish (not all of us physicians, yes?) Question, why is this necessary? But the fact is that for the treatment of many diseases one of the conditions is the delivery of a dose of the drug to a precisely calibrated place. Usually this is achieved by taking much higher than the required dose of the drug. And this is by no means healthy: the side effects of a large number of drugs have not benefited anyone yet.
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So such an iPill may be more than useful. By the way, in addition to delivering the medicine to the right place, the pill can also measure the temperature inside the body. And transmit the received data wirelessly.

According to representatives of Philips, smart pills are ready for industrial production.

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Dear, apparently, will pill ... Interestingly, maybe iPill can be reusable? If so, it leaves the body naturally, and nothing else.
- Mom, mom, my tablet came out.
- Well, son, wash it and put it on the shelf.

via Reuters