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Smart Pill Reports on Body from the Inside

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looks-fine-from-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage," scientists enter the submarine Proteus, which is miniaturized so they can go inside the body of Jan Benes and save him. While such feats may be a ways off, a new smart pill "enters and exits the body through preexisting orifices" and reports on what it finds along the way, including temperature and pH. Sounds a bit creepy, but apparently it can lickety-split diagnose a disease that otherwise requires lots of uncomfortable probing."

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  1. Look out by neonprimetime · · Score: 4, Funny

    The 26-by-13-millimeter smart pill, about the size of a multivitamin capsule, would go in and out natural orifices and report on everything in between

    And we were worried about the government wire-tapping our phones?

  2. Here's hoping... by digitalgiblet · · Score: 5, Funny
    "enters and exits the body through preexisting orifices"

    Here's hoping this means you swallow it and it exits through the other end and NOT that it enters said other end and claws its way up to exit from your mouth.

  3. Pre-Existing Orificies! by neonprimetime · · Score: 2, Funny

    exits the body through preexisting orifices

    I'm just glad it exits thru Pre-existing Orifices ... as opposed to the alternative!

  4. Prexisting orifices? by phamlen · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:
    The disposable $500 pill--which enters and exits the body through preexisting orifices.

    Preexisting orifices? I guess we should be thankful they don't enter and exit through non-preexisting orifices - I can just imagine a doctor saying "There's this great new SmartPill but I'm gonna have to tear you a new asshole to use it."

    -Peter
  5. I am completely blown away by this by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is so amazing what doctors can do these days with $500, a tiny encapsulated computer, and a preexisting orifice.

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    1. Re:I am completely blown away by this by nizo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just make sure if you have to swallow one of these you get a brand new one still in the wrapper. I don't care how clean you say you can get it; I so don't want to swallow anything that came out of someone else's butt.

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  6. Oblig Futurama by Kesch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good news! It's a suppository!

    (P.S. Some of us enjoyed the old style 'uncomfortable' probing)

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  7. This is ripe for sniffing. by dstone · · Score: 3, Funny

    While inside the colon, "the transmitter's broadcast range is 300 feet".

    Receivers in promiscuous mode. Sniff away.