--- title: You Might Swallow Your Next Fitness Tracker description: You might be swallowing your next fitness tracker, connecting refugees with families for a meal, the end of antibiotics and more. canonical: https://time.com/4125830/swallow-next-fitness-tracker/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-24T17:04:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:52.272Z article:section: Ideas og:title: You Might Swallow Your Next Fitness Tracker og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4125830/swallow-next-fitness-tracker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Might Swallow Your Next Fitness Tracker twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Might Be Swallowing Your Next Fitness Tracker by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 24, 2015 5:04 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 24, 2015 5:04 PM UTC **1\.** [**You might be swallowing your next fitness tracker.**](http://news.mit.edu/2015/ingestible-sensor-measures-heart-breathing-rates-1118) By Anne Trafton at MIT News **2\.** [**This app connects refugees with local families for a shared meal.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/refoodgee-app-memorado%5F56532b93e4b0879a5b0b90da) By Alexandra Ma in the World Post **3\.** [**The antibiotic of last resort has met its match. We need new cures.**](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12005647/Antibiotics-are-dead-its-time-to-find-another-cure.html) By Madhumita Murgia in the Telegraph **4\.** [**Want to store clean energy? This 1890s method beats batteries.**](http://e360.yale.edu/feature/for%5Fstoring%5Felectricity%5Futilities%5Fare%5Fturning%5Fto%5Fpumped%5Fhydro/2934/) By John Roach in Yale Environment 360 **5\.** [**Here’s why Africa needs more women teachers.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/let-women-teach/416304/) By Alia Wong in the Atlantic  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4125830/swallow-next-fitness-tracker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4125830/swallow-next-fitness-tracker/"},"headline":"You Might Be Swallowing Your Next Fitness Tracker","datePublished":"2015-11-24T17:04:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:52.272Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4125830/swallow-next-fitness-tracker/","keywords":["Innovation","Africa","Education","Refugees","Renewable energy","antibiotics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4125830/swallow-next-fitness-tracker/","name":"You Might Be Swallowing Your Next Fitness Tracker"}}]}] ```