Individual herbs can be used for specific symptoms; UK doctors prescribe peppermint oil capsules for bloating and cramps in IBS, even though evidence is limited.
Since then, well over 30 million people have taken the vertiginous but breathtaking half-hour journey, in air-conditioned capsules, up and around what was, until two years ago, the world's biggest ferris wheel.
I can think of no better fate for film websites than to function as online time capsules, destined to be rediscovered by technologically advanced future generations, who'll laugh at the way we used to consume media as they download the latest trailers directly into their cerebral cortexes by blinking.
He picks goods off the shelves – capsules, toothpastes, body creams – and stacks them on the counter as he explains what they do.
The tyres on my bike and, more famously, bullet proof vests both have Stephanie Kwolek to thank, whose invention of Kevlar has been put to myriad tasks, from space capsules to oven gloves.
Most popular with the young homeless population is a substitute called skenan, capsules of morphine sulphate.
Contrast this breadth of vision with the political pop songs of the 60s such as PF Sloan's Eve of Destruction, which often suffer from their intrinsically ephemeral nature – we can appreciate them as soundtracks to a specific era but they are more melodic time capsules than works of music to be enjoyed over and over again.
There's also the office market, international growth, different forms of coffee dispenser such as capsules and many other areas to think about.
Just bought a huge consignment of gourmet espresso capsules even though you don't drink coffee?
The substance she created, lightweight, flexible, strong and heat-resistant, would prove to have hundreds of applications, in everything from space capsules to skis, fibre-optic cables to suspension bridges, firefighting suits to oven gloves.
"They are time capsules from the beginnings of our solar system," she says, "and they still contain the first solid matter from that time.
