Walkers swallow RFID pills for science
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 29th 2008 6:44PM
posted July 29th 2008 6:44PM
It seems like some researchers from Radbound University in The Netherlands took advantage of the recent Four Days Marches of Nijmegen walking race for a little experiment earlier this month, where they convinced ten volunteers to swallow an RFID pill as part of a study to monitor body temperature. Apparently, the pills recorded and transmitted the walkers' core temperature to a receiver in their backpack every ten seconds, which in turn sent the data via Bluetooth to a GPS-enabled phone that then relayed it to the operations center at Radbound. With all that info at their disposal, the researchers were able to monitor each walker and alert them if their temperature was reaching a dangerous level, or even alert others nearby if they weren't responding (which apparently wasn't necessary). As you might have guessed, the researchers are already hard at work planning an even larger test for next year's event, which they hope could eventually lead to the system being used at marathons and other sports events.[Via picturephoning.com]
she poisoned me with science?
they should RFID tag prisoners
so i guess you'll be an early volunteer when you finally act out on one of your publicly advertised pedo fantasies, flashpoint?
prisioners are people too and if it starts with the prisioners the government will say, hey! let's put these things in every american from birth, then they can track us all the time
Dumb ass
This would be called "testing the water" for future plans to 'chip' everyone.
check zeitgeistmovie
Are you sure they don't now?
This idea has existed for a while now and it has been implemented for other purposes. As this article mentions http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=156444&f_src=flffour it was used in Ghana to measure pollution (while it was attached to taxis)
Check out the article for more information.
Sorry you've all been tagged already. (you just don't know it yet)
I guess the first to be numbered are the Mexicans and Mexican immigrants are they are already tagging them in Mexico. Americans are being setup to be next. Soon, these chips will have the ability to control peoples behavior, through stimulation to certain nerves.
Beware, this is nothing to be taken lightly. IBM produced the punch card system used by the NAZIS to keep track of Jews in there Murder camps and it seems IBM is up to there old tricks once again. Check out IBM the holocaust and Verichip.
Who is IBM doing this for anyway? Not you and me, baby...not you and me.
They should head to the Olympics.
Phan,
Do you do anything else to do in life besides commenting on every Engadget post?
I'm honestly curious...
Evan,
Nope.
Love, Me.
I just clicked on phanbouy's profile thingy and it says 2797 engadget comments. Wow. Seriously, I'm impressed.
wow.. i thought that was a typo until i looked at his profile :o
I saw this on a mountain climbing show several months ago. They monitored people's core temperatures. Interesting stuff.
Wouldn't you "pass" the pill every 24 hours or so? If this was a four day event you'd have to take a new pill everyday and hope that you'd already passed the other one. TFA doesn't really say.
Depends on how many Powerbars you eat.
Quote from their website:
"Proven by more than 15 years of use in the field, the CorTemp™ Physiological Monitoring System features an ingestible thermometer pill..."
Been around a while.
Let's see how your data reads after I chase it with 10 bean burritos...
I for one, welcome the forced RFID tagging by our robot overlords.
This would be good as a helpline .. if you're a kid being kidnapped (or a person being mugged), if it can detect your sudden elevated pulse rate (to differentiate it from sprinting) and other fear stress signs it can auto notify authorities etc. .. prolly will have a few false positives before the tech is perfected though.
kinda ridiculous to swallow a rfid for the remote chance you might be kidnapped ... unless you are one of those rich kids in mexico .
"geev us 1 meeelion dollars if you want to see your keeed again"
What if your friend just scared the crap out of you.
FYI,
two years ago a few people died during this event.
This shocked the nation, as it was known as a big family-event that attracted mostly people who prepared well for this long distance multi-day walk.
That year was extremely hot (for Dutch standards, that is), and lot's of people experienced health-problems because of that.
This is directly connected to those incidents, as part of lots of efforts to try to avoid those kind of problems in the future.
Shocked the nation? pfft
Would this qualify as an oral or rectal thermometer? Damn, I left my pen in somebodies....
"I can't possibly swallow that!"
"Well then good news! It's a suppository."
Right, I'm sure it was an expirement based on body temperature, and not triangulating a position via RFID and cellphones.
Practicing how effective the RFID tech is so they can be ready when they insist on chipping everyone. Are you gonna let it happen to you?
well sure. I've got a tinfoil buttplug.
This is lame, carrying around a backpack during a marathon would be a burden all by itself ...whoever is behind this "experiment/technology" is certainly clueless of the natural feel participants seek out of these type of events.
its radboud university, FYI. no 'n'.
Then they poop um out?
This reminds me of nanomachines a la Metal Gear Solid...pretty soon, we'll all be monitored.
yes , we will be watching your every move . even now , as you look at this screen we are watching you watch the screen . mwahahaha , we are diabolical like dat
conspiracy? i think not
kind of related to this subject is a pill like camera that patients swallow so that it can record it's passage through the intestine. And yes you "poop" it out. A very good look at both the small and large intestine.
Damn walkers *shakes fist* You'll get your comeuppance for killing the Segway! Mark my words! comeupppppppppance *bends over out of breath*
;-P
They swallowed RFID pills? Figures. The government will soon be tracking our shit.
This will be extremely dangerous to peoples FREEDOMS in the near future.
We already have 'REAL ID' cards with soon to have RFID chips in them on our door steps here in the US. Check YouTube.
The final steps are to get us using these chip-filled cards to not only have an identity, but to use them for buying things (like credit cards); then they can be turned off remotely when we do something the 'controllers' (govt) don't approve of. Simple as that. This is all just more testing for the future of a New World Order / One World Govt.
The Father Land Security would not do something like that! What do you think America is? Some Fascist State that would listen in on its citizens without judicial approval in violation of our constitution, or that would imprison people for years without charge or even torture prisioners?
Oh yeah...right...GWB has approved doing all those things.
Sieg Hei!
it is actually the Radboud university, not Radbound
This so reminds me of what MGS4 is all about, I guess we are headed to that direction very soon...
What color was it? Blue or Red? omg the machines are taking over... X.X
So they manage to measure inner body temperature increase when exposed to RFID, Bluetooth and GSM/3G radiation simultaneously... great!