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Vitals monitoring in a pill sized ingestible package

glims

November 2015

edited November 2015

in Everything else

I found an article about this today, and hunted down the paper.

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/99940

Seems like something people here would be interested in.

Comments

1. 

   QuantumD0t

   
   December 2015
   Heh. "Hamming window"
   
   Seriously, though, +/- 5bpm is fantastic! I wonder if the device could be reused (after sterilization) indefinitely.
2. 

   garethnelsonuk
   December 2015
   After it passes through your digestive tract you want to recover it and reuse it by swallowing it again?

   
   

   Even if you sterilise it fully, that idea is rather off putting.....
3. 

   QuantumD0t

   
   December 2015
   It's more of a curiosity about the device's durability. Y'know, how well does its materials stand up to gastric juices, enzymes, etc.
4. 

   glims

   
   December 2015
   @garethnelsonuk this is why i only drink vodka. fish shit in water /s

   
   

   seriously tho, sterile is sterile. If you do it right, it's just in your head.
5. 

   garethnelsonuk
   December 2015
   Oh, I know it'd be safe, but psychologically the idea is so offputting and the device should be cheap enough that it's better to not reuse it.