A pill that reports on the user.

[Dave B]

I can understand the logic but this is a little to Big Brother for me.

FDA approves pill with sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication

https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/...584933.htm

With you on the concerns, Brewer. We have had several cases over here of mental illness sufferers not taking their antipsychotics, either because of unpleasant side effects or their illness mitigating against developing a regular habit. This has sometimes involved injury or death to innocent people. So, yes, something that monitors the situation is good at first sight. If it prevents incarcerstion in a mental hodpital that is also good.

But as the public gets used to one thing . . .

I am not against some kinds of remote monitoring, I have an Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator, ICD. This little marvel has saved my life st least twice but, living alone, once I came round (as an untidy heap on the floor) I had to call the event in. They promise that future models will have GPS and a cellphone built in. So, providing there is at least one network signal available, it will report in with the location of the untidy heap. That is, for me, a very acceptable idea.

So, how long will it be before being permitted back into society involves having the whole device implanted? They will have to manage energy handling a bit better though - the battery in my ICD has a 6 -7 year life under normal circumstsnces. Rather beats the average cellphone! I have to say that the battery in my first ICD was faulty and went flat in 3 years. A built in vibrator tells you when it is down by 90%, then again at 95%. Mine went from 90 to 95 % flat in 24 hours, crash dive mode, and was no longer functioning by the time they started the cut to remove it! Bit scary... well, not really, they had me wired to an automatic external defibrillator by then and I was chatting with the surgeon as he worked.