Ah, there it is for all you lazy bones, the intelligent pill that releases medicine when your body needs it. Boy this seems like cruise control for your body!

Dubbed the Intelligent Pill or iPill, the new drug-delivery system packs a micropump and sensors that monitor the body’s temperature and pH balance into one pill. If the body’s temperature and pH reach certain levels, the iPill responds by pumping out more or less of its drug payload. It could be used to treat many ailments like AIDS or diabetes.

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How much time, effort and money do you spend everyday to keep yourself fit? You go to gym every morning, restrict yourself from eating fatty foodstuffs and so many other things. Have you ever tried the simple method of meditation?

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This is high tech irrigation at its simplest best. Santosh Ostwal, who couldn’t see his old father walking miles away just to switch on his pumpset, that too 2 or 3 times a day, came up with an ingenious mobile solution: Remote operate the pump switch and save time and energy! Ostwal calls his brilliant innovation Nano Ganesh.

Nokia Business Development Manager Prakash Sayini who is quite taken up with the remarkable product says “The level of innovation possible through mobile is to be seen in this product.”

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