By swallowing a thermometer the size of a vitamin pill, patients can transmit their internal temperature data to a recorder for analysis. Technology developed by NASA to monitor astronaut health was used by a private laboratory to create the wireless, probe-less micro-transmitter. Today, professional athletes, hospitalized intensive-care patients, free-moving outpatients, the aging and those with sports injuries and sleep disorders all reap the benefits of this non-intrusive invention.
To monitor the body temperature of astronauts during space flight, NASA teamed up with Johns Hopkins University in the late 1980s to develop an ingestible “thermometer pill.” The device incorporates a number of common space technologies, including wireless signal transmission, microminiaturized circuitry, sensors, and batteries.
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