A pill that you swallow to keep track of your body temperature, internally is the ultimate in tracking your performance these days. E-Celsius is a pill created by the French company BodyCap. It looks like a regular medicine capsule but it is packed with a temperature sensor, batteries and memory.

Once you swallow it the pill has the ability to send data on your body temperature  to a computer monitor via radio frequency. No it does not have bluetooth capabilities as yet. However it does have the ability to store 16 hours worth of data. That is something to think about given the minuscule size of the e-pill.

These electronic -pills were devised as a means for elite athletes to track their performance and have been used by the French football team FC Nantes and also by cyclists who participated in the 2015 Road World Championship.

The actual potential of these e-pills lies in the potential use by doctors who wish to monitor patients after surgery for bouts of fever which could mean an infection. There are many ways in which this innovative science project could actually work in the health care industry. It will be interesting to see how it develops.