ARE YOU HOT OR NOT? PILL GIVES ANSWERS

It can get hot dan­ger­ously hot — scram­bling across a desert com­bat zone, or scrim­mag­ing dur­ing football’s August pre­sea­son. But good luck mea­sur­ing a sergeant’s or a linebacker’s core body tem­per­a­ture; get­ting an accu­rate read­ing usu­ally requires, ahem, a rec­tal probe.
Oregon medtech firm Mini Mitter has a less intru­sive approach: a pill-​​sized, swal­low­able ther­mome­ter called Jonah that trans­mits data wire­lessly to a hand­held.
My Wired mag­a­zine story has details.

January 6th, 2005 | Medic! | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.