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2008-11-14

Philps' iPill

New 'intelligent pill' releases correct amount of medicine

An "intelligent pill" has been developed that, once swallowed, will release the correct amount of medicine according to what the body needs.

Dubbed the "iPill", it contains a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a drug reservoir to release medication in a specific area in the body.

Designed by Philips, the Dutch electronics giant, the iPill capsule measures acidity with a sensor to determine its location in the gut, before releasing the drug.

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Philips Research - Technology Backgrounder

Philips’ intelligent pill technology

Philips Research’s intelligent pill (iPill) for electronically controlled drug delivery

The mechanical design of Philips Research’s intelligent pill (iPill). In the form of an 11 x 26 mm capsule, the iPill incorporates a microprocessor, battery, pH sensor, temperature sensor, RF wireless transceiver, fluid pump and drug reservoir.

2008-08-12

New technology finds chemicals in fingerprints

Clipped from: Fingerprint Test Tells What a Person Has Touched - NYTimes.com

Fingerprint Test Tells What a Person Has Touched
With a new analytical technique, a fingerprint can now reveal much more than the identity of a person. It can now also identify what the person has been touching: drugs, explosives or poisons, for example.

Clipped from: Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity

The research was performed within Purdue's Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development located at the Bindley Biosciences Center in Purdue's Discovery Park.

Cooks' device, called desorption electrospray ionization or DESI, has been commercialized by Indianapolis-based Prosolia Inc., and the research was funded by Office of Naval Research and Prosolia Inc.

Clipped from: Lifesaving Answers Hidden Inside Fingerprints
Purdue University Chemistry professor R. Graham Cooks unveiled a new scientific discovery in Friday’s issue of the journal Science. It appears that human fingerprints can determine more than just who you are. They also contain extremely small traces of what someone touched, what someone ate or whether any drugs were taken.

The researchers used a technique called DESI, pioneered by him and his collaborators in 2004. In this revolutionary method, researchers spray microscopic droplets of water onto a sample. The droplets form a film that dissolves chemicals. Some of the additional droplets splashed bounce back and are sucked into a tube. They are thus heated inside the tube; they break into smaller molecules which are afterwards identified according to their molecular weight.

Clipped from: CAID - Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development

2008-04-08

Mind Control

Mind control (or "brainwashing") refers to a broad range of psychological tactics able to subvert an individual's control of his own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decisions. The concept is closely related to hypnosis, but differs in practical approach.
Mind control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are a number of controversial issues regarding mind control and the methods by which control might be attained. Some are discusse in the next videos.

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Mind control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
INFORMATION AND VIDEO CONCERNING MIND CONTROL

2007-12-28

Drugs may boost your brain power

clipped from www.latimes.com

Drugs to build up that mental muscle

Academics, musicians, even poker champs use pills to sharpen their minds, legally. Labs race to develop even more.

The medicine cabinet of so-called cognitive enhancers also includes Ritalin, commonly given to schoolchildren for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and beta blockers, such as the heart drug Inderal. Researchers have been investigating the drug Aricept, which is normally used to slow the decline of Alzheimer's patients.

The drugs haven't been tested extensively in healthy people, but their physiological effects in the brain are well understood.

They are all just precursors to the blockbuster drug that labs are racing to develop.

"Whatever company comes out with the first memory pill is going to put Viagra to shame," said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe.

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