Smart Pills which can be operated by your Smart Phones

This is very interesting news I want to share with you all this week. This time science and technology has merged completely and Proteus Biomedical Inc. a California based company, has developed a smart pill also known as the Helius system, that has the capability of notifying you or your physician once a prescription drug has been ingested. The drug comes with a tiny digestible silicon-based chip that contains trace amounts of magnesium and copper. Once digested, the metals mix with your stomach acids, creating an electrical charge that’s sent to an external skin patch worn by the patient. This skin patch transmits the information to your iPhone or computer, and is then sent directly to your doctor.

The information not only notifies your doctor that you’ve taken the pill, but it also offers up a full body health check reporting your current heart rate, body temperature, exercise levels and even decides whether or not you’re sleeping well. The Helius system also reminds the patient when the next dosage is due.

HOW IT WORKS

First of all look at the size of pill. It is same as ordinary tablet contains a microchip or a sensor inside.

Once you take this pill, it start reacting with stomach chemicals and activated. In this system, there is a patch or receiver which can be fasten on patient's hand and an application which is installed in your Smart phone or laptop.   

When pill is activated and patch is fastened on your skin, it starts sending unique electrical signals to the patch. Patch sends this data to the Smart phone or laptops by Bluetooth.     

Production of Helius system has been started and scientists are expecting this is a good start and later on they can enhanced it more and make it more useful.

Although there are probably important health benefits associated with this technology, once again the problem lies with the entity implementing the system. Too often, Big Pharma introduces technology that’s financially beneficial to itself rather than to the consumer.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2087275/New-smart-pill-tells-patients-dose-due.html
http://www.infowars.com/smart-pills-snitch-you-out-to-your-doctor/

Man survives 15th floor fall in New Zealand

A British man has survived a fall from the 15th floor of a building in New Zealand, local media report.

Mr Stilwell fell from his building block, Volt Apartments in Auckland 

Tom Stilwell fell from his neighbour's balcony in his apartment block in Auckland at 02:00 local time on Sunday (14:00 GMT on Saturday), reports said.

He was trying to lower himself onto his balcony, which was directly below his neighbour's, when he fell, police said.

His friends said that he had bone fractures and internal injuries, but was "fine" and "a very lucky man".

He was awake and laughing on Monday, but had no recollection of what happened, his friends told New Zealand newsgroup Fairfax Media.

"He looks alright," his flatmate, Beth Goodwin, said. "It's more internal injuries. He's broken some bones in his ribs and neck but they're not important bones."

In a statement, New Zealand police said: "It appears that the man was locked out of his 14th floor apartment. He fell while attempting to climb down the outside of the building from a 15th floor apartment directly above his, in an effort to gain access via his balcony."

There were "no suspicious circumstances surrounding the fall", the statement added.

'Tipsy but polite'

Continue reading the main storyThe 20-year-old is said to be in New Zealand on a working holiday.

Mr Stilwell discovered he was locked out of his flat early on Sunday, and asked a neighbour if he could climb down from her balcony into his flat, his friends said.

The neighbour, Geraldine Bautista, told the New Zealand Herald that Mr Stilwell was "a little tipsy" but polite.

"I wasn't scared of him - he just requested 'Can you please let me jump off from the balcony? I will not bother you, just let me use your balcony.'"

"I never thought he would really do that. In my mind I thought 'Okay, I'll just let you see that it's really impossible. I didn't think he'd jump, because it's really scary."

However, he quickly pulled himself over the balcony railing before she could stop him, she said.

"I thought I was dreaming... it happened within seconds," she said. "I couldn't even scream for help."

Mr Stilwell's fall was broken by the roof of an adjacent building, reportedly some 13 floors below.

He was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but was in a satisfactory condition by Monday, a hospital spokesperson said.

Dr Tony Smith, a medical director at St John, an emergency healthcare organisation, told the New Zealand Herald that a person's chances of survival were increased if they were able to break their fall on something.

However, "survival from falls of that height are extraordinarily unusual", he said.

In December 2007, New York window cleaner Alcides Moreno plummeted 47 floors when cables holding the platform he and his brother were working on failed. His brother died but Mr Moreno made a full recovery, something doctors attributed in part to his escaping major head injuries.

In June 2010 a four-year-old boy escaped with minor injuries after falling from the 17th floor of a hotel in Miami. Joey Williams, who bounced off palm trees as he fell to the 10th-floor pool area, was sitting up in bed by the next day.

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OZTI THE ICEMAN EUROPE'S OLDEST MUMMY

New analysis of Otzi the Iceman's brain tissue has revealed that Europe's oldest mummy likely died of a head injury.

The study conducted by research teams at Saarland and Kiel University and published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, focused on proteins found in two brain samples from Ötzi recovered with the help of a computer-controlled endoscope.

Researchers say they identified 502 different proteins, 10 of which were related to blood and coagulation.

They also reportedly found evidence of an accumulation of proteins related to stress response and wound healing.

This coincides with the results of a 2007 CAT scan of Otzi's brain which revealed dark spots at the back of his cerebrum, indicating he suffered a blow to the head that caused the brain to collide with the back of the skull.

Otzi the Iceman's body was found by hikers in the Alps in 1991. Photo: Getty

It is also understood that Otzi had been hit in the shoulder by a deadly artery-piercing arrow and that he had an undigested meal in his stomach when he died, suggesting he may have been ambushed.

"Proteins are the decisive players in tissues and cells, and they conduct most of the processes which take place in cells," Andreas Tholey, a scientist at Germany's Kiel University and a researcher on the new Ötzi study, said in a statement.

"Identification of the proteins is therefore key to understanding the functional potential of a particular tissue," Tholey continued.

"DNA is always constant, regardless of from where it originates in the body, whereas proteins provide precise information about what is happening in specific regions within the body."

Dutch artists Adrie Kennis and Alfons Kennis used scientists findings to build a model of what Otzi the Iceman would have looked like. Photo: Getty

Since his frozen body was found by a pair of hikers in the Alps in 1991, scientists have studied Otzi with intense scrutiny.

They have been able to reconstruct his face, last meal, his clothing and his genome.

Although this latest discovery brings scientists closer to solving the mystery of Otzi the Iceman, researchers say it is still unclear whether his brain injury was caused by being bashed over the head or by falling after being struck with the arrow.

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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Demo for Tablet and Mobile

Thursday 6th June, 2013: Microsoft has launched bespoke tablet and mobile demos to showcase the new features of Office 365, as part of its wider ‘Work from Anywhere’ campaign.

The demos, designed and built in partnership with UM London and Mobile5, offer a complex and immersive experience to demonstrate the ‘Work from Anywhere’ functionalities of Office 365, and are available across Android, Windows Phone, Surface and iOS.

Amongst a range of other features, the tablet demo integrates Bing Maps to determine a user’s location as well as offering a sharing functionality, showing how rich an experience can be brought to life on the platform via the Microsoft cloud software.

On mobile, the demo will offer users a ‘parallax’ experience whereby people can scroll down and learn about the new features of Office 365, and for the first time in any advertising campaign uses ‘hotspot’ overlays to bring our specific elements of

content.

The demos will stand alone on tablet and mobile, but will also be housed in interactive banners across relevant IT websites.

As per Microsoft’s wider ‘Work from Anywhere’ campaign, which kicked off earlier this year, the demos are predominantly aimed at IT Decision Makers, the core target audience. The campaign, planned by UM London, has used some unique and innovative media executions, such as WiFi park benches, to show that Office 365 literally allows people to do their work wherever they are.

Britta Anderson, Head of Mobile at UM, said, “The depth and complexity of experience that we have generated through our Office 365 demos certainly goes further than any other work we have developed on tablet or mobile before, so we’re really excited about how people respond to it. What better way to prove the core USP of the product than to actually get people experiencing it for themselves.”

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Is a live Rat giving sign of life on Mars?

What do you see in the picture below? Rocks, dust, or something a little furrier?

According to some netizens, it’s unmistakable – this is a space rat.

"This odd creature was discovered on Mars by a person in Japan in March,” Scott C. Waring wrote in a blog post on UFO Sightings Daily.

"This animal was not the first to be discovered in NASA photos,” he went on, but is in a long line of strange creatures."

A rat or a rock? Photo: UFOSightingsDaily.com

Just how a rat could come to be living on the -55C surface of Mars is quite the mystery, but Waring and his colleagues have an answer for that one.

"Is NASA placing animals from tiny cryogenic chambers inside the rover onto the surface of Mars to conduct tests?" he asked.

NASA were quick to hose down such claims, but welcomed the interest in the Mars Rover images.

Sharp eyes - the magnified image showing a 'rat' came from this Mars Rover photo. Photo: NASA

It seems we may have longer to wait for more credible signs of life on Mars, but there is hope.

In December last year, NASA scientists revealed evidence of water having been on the surface much more recently than previously thought.

"We have characterized a very ancient, but strangely new 'gray Mars' where conditions once were favorable for life," said John Grotzinger, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

"Curiosity is on a mission of discovery and exploration, and as a team we feel there are many more exciting discoveries ahead of us in the months and years to come."

"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," added Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."

Source[7News]