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New Pfizer tech: pill with tiny chip that sends a wireless signal when digested

26 points by wsc981 4y ago

boeingUH60 4y ago
The conspiracy theorists are probably having a boner right now..
- h2odragon 4y ago
  Nah, too perfect. Must be bait. "Imagine the compliance" with the "WEF" background behind him. Conspiracy theorists can't keep up with the Illuminati anymore. It's hard to expose the nefarious plans for world domination when they've got their entire media complex trumpeting them.
- bluefirebrand 4y ago
  If this is the kind of thing they will admit to openly imagine what they aren't telling us. That's the real conspiracy goldmine.
- belter 4y ago
  I said it before jokingly, that every conspiracy theory, as crazy as it may sound will eventually prove itself true. Expecting the Nazis that live on the dark side of the Moon to land somewhere soon, and I swear I saw somebody yesterday that looked like Elvis.
hellohowareu 4y ago
TechBro8615 4y ago
FYI this is an old clip. I can’t recall the original source, but I’ve seen this video before. I think the interview was also before Covid.
mc4ndr3 4y ago
New ways for the system to fail
durnygbur 4y ago
Is he the guy who sold Pfizer shares during the short 1-2 days spike after the first announcement of the first Covid vaccination?
sneusse 4y ago
That’s how Elizabeth Keen died.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  (I looked it up wondering if this was real and this refers to a fictional character from a show called The Blacklist)
mindcrime 4y ago
Not exactly super-new tech. Another company was doing this back in, oh, 2015 or so. I know because I did some work on a "data lake" project specifically for data gathered from the "send a signal pills". The overall system used a sensor attached to a band that was worn around the abdomen, which paired with a smartphone via Bluetooth, and then sent the data upstream via IP. There was some more in-between processing, and in the end the data wound up in a Hadoop system (this is the part I worked on). IIRC, in addition to the actual pill signal, the band also gathered data like heart-rate, body temp, angle of inclination, etc. All of this was wrapped up in some messaging about "personalized medicine", etc, yadda yadda. In reality it was, as I understood it, mostly an exercise in attempting to do something called "patent extension"[1]. Since this new delivery mechanism, and associated technology, would all require FDA approval, it somehow triggered a process that let the drug manufacturer maintain their exclusivity over a drug that was about to go off-patent. Or something like that. I was a software guy, not a lawyer, but that's the way it was explained to me. Anyway, my time on the project came to an end, and I didn't really keep up with what came of it afterwards. FWIW, the company I was working for was not Pfizer, and I'm not sure how the came to get involved in this space. Edit: I originally wasn't going to name names, since I was probably NDA'd to hell on that project, but I see somebody in the Twitter thread did call out the project I worked on. It was Abilify[2]. And it looks like the whole thing did eventually get approved. I wonder if anybody is actually using that version? Some more info here[3]. [1]: https://www.whitcomblawpc.com/additional-blogs-of-interest/patent-term-extension https://www.whitcomblawpc.com/additional-blogs-of-interest/p... [2]: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-pill-sensor-digitally-tracks-if-patients-have-ingested-their-medication https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr... [3]: https://www.otsuka-us.com/discover/articles-1208 https://www.otsuka-us.com/discover/articles-1208

26 points by wsc981 4y ago

boeingUH60 4y ago

The conspiracy theorists are probably having a boner right now..

h2odragon 4y ago
Nah, too perfect. Must be bait. "Imagine the compliance" with the "WEF" background behind him. Conspiracy theorists can't keep up with the Illuminati anymore. It's hard to expose the nefarious plans for world domination when they've got their entire media complex trumpeting them.
bluefirebrand 4y ago
If this is the kind of thing they will admit to openly imagine what they aren't telling us. That's the real conspiracy goldmine.
belter 4y ago
I said it before jokingly, that every conspiracy theory, as crazy as it may sound will eventually prove itself true. Expecting the Nazis that live on the dark side of the Moon to land somewhere soon, and I swear I saw somebody yesterday that looked like Elvis.

hellohowareu 4y ago

TechBro8615 4y ago

FYI this is an old clip. I can’t recall the original source, but I’ve seen this video before. I think the interview was also before Covid.

mc4ndr3 4y ago

New ways for the system to fail

durnygbur 4y ago

Is he the guy who sold Pfizer shares during the short 1-2 days spike after the first announcement of the first Covid vaccination?

sneusse 4y ago

That’s how Elizabeth Keen died.

unsupp0rted 4y ago
(I looked it up wondering if this was real and this refers to a fictional character from a show called The Blacklist)

mindcrime 4y ago

Not exactly super-new tech. Another company was doing this back in, oh, 2015 or so. I know because I did some work on a "data lake" project specifically for data gathered from the "send a signal pills". The overall system used a sensor attached to a band that was worn around the abdomen, which paired with a smartphone via Bluetooth, and then sent the data upstream via IP. There was some more in-between processing, and in the end the data wound up in a Hadoop system (this is the part I worked on). IIRC, in addition to the actual pill signal, the band also gathered data like heart-rate, body temp, angle of inclination, etc. All of this was wrapped up in some messaging about "personalized medicine", etc, yadda yadda. In reality it was, as I understood it, mostly an exercise in attempting to do something called "patent extension"[1]. Since this new delivery mechanism, and associated technology, would all require FDA approval, it somehow triggered a process that let the drug manufacturer maintain their exclusivity over a drug that was about to go off-patent. Or something like that. I was a software guy, not a lawyer, but that's the way it was explained to me. Anyway, my time on the project came to an end, and I didn't really keep up with what came of it afterwards. FWIW, the company I was working for was not Pfizer, and I'm not sure how the came to get involved in this space. Edit: I originally wasn't going to name names, since I was probably NDA'd to hell on that project, but I see somebody in the Twitter thread did call out the project I worked on. It was Abilify[2]. And it looks like the whole thing did eventually get approved. I wonder if anybody is actually using that version? Some more info here[3]. [1]: https://www.whitcomblawpc.com/additional-blogs-of-interest/patent-term-extension https://www.whitcomblawpc.com/additional-blogs-of-interest/p... [2]: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-pill-sensor-digitally-tracks-if-patients-have-ingested-their-medication https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr... [3]: https://www.otsuka-us.com/discover/articles-1208 https://www.otsuka-us.com/discover/articles-1208