The Future of Nanotechnology and Computers So Small You Can Swallow Them

November 30, 2015

(NPR) – Albert Swiston, a biomaterials scientist at MIT, is testing a tiny pill that combines a microphone, a thermometer and a battery to collect several measures at once from inside a body. It’s a latest in a series of ingestable computers like a Proteus sensor that tracks how patients take prescribed medications, a VitalSense from Philips that tracks a patient’s temperature or a PillCam that allows people to skip colonoscopies.