Electronic Pills that Call Your Phone from your Body?

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  1. happy fun dude

    happy fun dude New Member

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    I was watching Max Keiser discussing the spy society in light of the London spy bins revelations, and he said that now medications can evaluate your body signals from inside, and will ring your phone to remind you when you need another dose based on your body signals?!?

    Is this at all possible? I am skeptical, but in light of today's exponential rise in science/technology, I wouldn't be too surprised.

    I'm thinking Max Keiser might be getting mixed up with regular timed reminders which obviously can be programmed into your phone.

    Can anyone please help me fact check this? Thanks!
     
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    Use basic sense

    a) it will require a transmitter to send the signal
    b) a material that will have a reactant, upon being exposed to a specific molecule

    I think the pill will work but I believe it will be limited to specifics within the ingestation tracks and then the trick will be, to identify the markers within the region that the pill/transmitter/reactants can reside.

    is it possible? Absolutely
     
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    Common sense is exactly why I'm skeptical. I would think your stomach would digest through anything that can send a signal.

    But, I don't know how strong they are able to make nanobots, and what their capabilities can be.

    Common sense rules out a lot of things that science later plows right through. It's my respect for science and its ability to drop jaws that overrides common sense at least enough that it won't warrant summary dismissal.
     
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    Bishadi Banned

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    So i looked


    Scientists working with DARPA and Department of Energy backing have cracked the code on a kind of technological milestone, for the first time developing a nano-device capable of powering itself by harvesting energy from vibrations while at the same time transmitting data wirelessly over long distances. That kind of technology could have huge implications for devices ranging from surveillance implements to airborne sensors to implantable medical devices.

    Publishing their findings in the journal ACS Nano Letters, the team describes a nanogenerator that turns mechanical vibrations scavenged from anything from a person’s pulse to a breeze to a person walking or cars driving over a bridge into electricity to power the device. That in and of itself isn’t so impressive, as such vibration-driven generators already existed previously.

    The game-changer here is the fact that this nano-device can generate and store (in a capacitor) enough energy to also transmit wireless signals to a receiver up to 30 feet away via a transmitter roughly equivalent to those in Bluetooth headsets. The idea that something so small might be able to transmit data across distances could lead to new generations of medical sensors powered by a person’s own blood flow, environmental sensors powered by the ebb and flow of atmospheric air, and wearable sensors that run and transmit on the power leftover by the wearer’s own footsteps


    http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...ce-can-also-transmit-data-over-long-distances

    heck the transmitter itself is self energized by using tesla concepts (energy from vibrations (wavelengths))

    There is that jaw dropping information.
     
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    i noted that the article was quoting a site that i enjoy

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110615103042.htm












    Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues explain that advances in electronics have opened the door to developing tiny devices that operate battery-free on minute amounts of electricity that can be harvested from the pulse of a blood vessel, a gentle breeze, or the motions of a person walking. "It is entirely possible to drive the devices by scavenging energy from sources in the environment such as gentle airflow, vibration, sonic wave, solar, chemical, and/or thermal energy," the scientists explain.


    here is the wang's site

    http://www.nanoscience.gatech.edu/zlwang/
     
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    happy fun dude New Member

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    Like I said, science NEVER ceases to amaze me! This is an EXCITING (and dangerous) age we are living in!

    Thank you for the research. That was some quality information!
     
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    Granny wantin' to know...
    :grandma:
    ... Why would anyone answer the phone...

    ... only to lissen to a fart in the makin'?
     
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    just another day at the office

    ie.... I learned the idea from you, and I do homework to learn more.

    i should be thanking you
     
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    Nanogenerator uses human movement to power devices...
    :cool:
    Swiping Could Power Future Devices
    December 12, 2016 - One day soon, your smart phone could be charged by finger swipes, according to new research.
     

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