Ingestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly

Thursday, December 13, 2018 - 10:20 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology. Their capsule, which can be customized to deliver drugs, sense environmental conditions, or a combination of those functions, can reside in the stomach for at least a month, transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user's smartphone.

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