Pill Helps Doctors See Digestive Tract

Bush_man10 writes "RedNova is reporting about a pill loaded with technology similar to a digital camera that allows doctors to view more than 50,000 still images captured as it makes the trip through your small intestine. This is a much better alternative than the old fashioned camera on snaking tubes to check for intestinal troubles. All the images are collected wirelessly through a belt you wear while the pill completes it's fantastic voyage."

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Two questions

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Does it run linux?

2. Could you use it to explore Uranus?

P.S. This is really old news.

Next, on /.

[Molina the Bofh]

Radiation Helps Doctors See Through the Body

Technology/IT|Posted by michael on 09:45 PM December 3rd, 2003
from the radiation dept.

Clinton man10 writes "RedNova is reporting about a new kind of radiation that can pass through some parts of the body, like skin and organs, and be absorbed by other harder structures. Using a sofisticated receiver on the other end, the doctor can take a picture of your inner body. Doctors are using it to detect broken bones. This is a much better alternative than the old fashioned method of pressing the bone to see if the patient cries. They are going to name this fantastic radiation as X-rays."