Largely, they take the shape of a "digital pill" coated in digestible metals such as copper and magnesium embedded in a regular tablet.
Hand in hand with these exciting advances, however, is a crucial, fair-warning label – a significant number of people will understandably be hesitant to swallow a digital pill or stick a sensor on their foreheads.
AdhereTech's patented digital pill bottle helps patients remember to take their medicine.
In other words, it goes well beyond just passively popping a "digital pill".
A16z partner and OpenCoin investor Chris Dixon, who called the digital currency "the red pill" at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, was more circumspect as to an exact date of Bitcoin mass adoption.
Of course, Trinity Mirror tries to sugar the pill with some digital gobbledegook, as the rest of the memo illustrates: "With our digital content approach, we are increasingly understanding what content works for more people across the city.
In the Bill Gates-funded quest for the next form of contraception, a Massachusetts startup has come up with a small remote-controlled chip, like a digital wifi version of the pill, that will allow women to switch their fertility on and off at the touch of a button.
One of the pills, made by Proteus Digital Health, a small company in Redwood City, Calif., does not need a battery.
Then they'll use a digital membership card to access the pills via the vending machines.
