MEMS Switch for Ingestible Devices
June 17, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

Coto Technology RedRock MEMS Reed Switch
Reed switches are small electrical devices made of two metallic prongs inside a sealed glass container. They were invented at Bell Labs in 1936 and millions of them went into telephone exchange equipment. Small as they are, they are about twenty times larger than the MEMS reed switches from Coto Techology Company (N. Kingston, RI). The reduced size raises the possibility of their being used in such medical devices as an ingestible endoscope, in-the-canal hearing aids, implantable insulin delivery appliances and other ingestible/implantable/wearable technologies. MORE
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