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Rescooped by Richard Platt from UX-UI-Wearable-Tech for Enhanced Human |
Scoop.it!
Richard Platt's insight:
Consumable electronics are on the way to you via Jawbone, albeit this is likely to infringe on big Pharma's move into this space, interesting vision presented on where this technology is going and how it can help us.
The concept of embedding a chipset into a pill is not new. Proteus already get an approval from the FDA in 2012 for a system that use pills+patch that communicates with the chipset +iPhone App.
The news is more that Jawbone, a mass-market brand, intends to develop such product. That means something, like an intrusion in the Pharma walled garden.
But how to reinsure the consumers to make them swallow a pill in their body ?
Read also this article about Christopher Bettinger of Carnegie Mellon Univ. who presents a vision for creating safe, consumable electronics.