Now I take a pill – seriously. This is the latest awesomely stupid-yetbrilliant innovation from Motorola.

According to various international reports, the US phone maker has come up with a solution to help people remember the multitude of passwords that most of us require to function on a day-to-day basis.

Think about it; in order to survive in our modern-day tech-driven society, the average person has to remember at least half a dozen passwords – PC/laptop log-in, WiFi network log-in, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, online banking… this list goes on and on.

However, Motorola’s solution is quite out there, to say the least. Apparently, the company has literally manufactured a pill that contains a tiny microchip that stores a user’s password information.

According to reports, the plan is that users give their password information to Motorola, which would then create a custom pill with a tiny electronic chip inside it.

When swallowed, the capsule dissolves in the stomach and the microchip is powered by stomach acid. This broadcasts encrypted details to code readers on various electronic devices, such as PCs, tablets, mobile phones, etc.

The chip then turns your entire body into an authentication device, since the body conducts electricity. From there, one touch of a PC or phone screen – with any part of the body – and access is granted.

The pill has already been approved for medical use by the US Food and Drug Administration, but is still some way off being release for commercial use.

In theory, it could mean that one never need remember a single password again. But there is a slight snag – it would pass through your body within about 24 hours, so you would have to pop the pill on a daily basis.

This could be a bit of a pain for those of us who just can’t remember to take a pill every morning. But it could also seriously screw with those people who already swallow handfuls of pills every day. You know, those who have those funky pill boxes that have compartments labelled with the days of the week.

Imagine if you had different pills with different passwords – those that you use regularly could be dumped onto one pill, but all those others that you use less frequently could cause confusion, especially when mixed with regular meds. Perhaps a categorisation system of sorts would help.

So, you could keep the online banking pills with your headache medication, SARS e-filing could be kept with the laxatives and the SABC licence account pills would probably fit right in with the contraceptives. Throw in some Alzheimer’s meds and things could get just a little too complicated.

Yeah, I foresee problems.

Happy reading!