Comments on IEM Pill Microchip Remote Monitoring Of Dosage
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"The Thunderbirds episode "Day of Disaster" (4th Nov 1965) featured an edible transmitter."
( 11/15/2010 1:15:24 AM)
"Learn all about the 'personal edible transmitter' (the one with the nice raspberry flavor) starting around 2:30.
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(Bill Christensen 11/15/2010 5:09:08 AM)
"And I suppose I should mention the Taprisiot monitor bead from Frank Herbert's 1977 novel The Dosadi Experiment as well."
(Bill Christensen 11/15/2010 5:13:06 AM)
"Will you be allowed on an Airliner with one of these transmitting inside you?"
(Peter Jacobs 11/21/2010 3:51:36 PM)
"As far as I know, there is no off switch."
(Bill Christensen 11/21/2010 8:10:39 PM)
"See also the ingestible communications capsule from Triplanetary (1934) by EE 'Doc' Smith."
(Bill Christensen 12/17/2010 2:39:10 PM)
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