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Top 10 technology breakthroughs of 2008

December 27, 2008

9. Edible Chips

Soon, tiny edible chips will track when patients take their pills (or don't) and monitor the effects of the drugs they're taking. Proteus, a Redwood City, California, company, has created tiny chips out of silicon grains that, once swallowed, activate in the stomach.

The chips send a signal to an external patch that monitors vital parameters such as heart rate, temperature, state of wakefulness or body angle.

Image (for representative purpose only): Soon, tiny edible chips will track when patients take their pills (or don't) and monitor the effects of the drugs they're taking. | Rediff file photograph