A Panoramic View of Your Insides

deepcleanfun writes "Researchers from New Mexico and Taiwan have invented a tiny probe — about the size of a rice grain — equipped with an ultrasound scanner that can travel through veins and arteries, taking ultrasound images of its surroundings. Unlike previous probes that travel through the body, which provide a view from only one direction at a time, the new device has seven imagers integrated onto the hexagonal prism that can see nearly everywhere at once."

Comments

How does this not kill you?

[RandoX]

Isn't having solid stuff in your bloodstream bad?

Patents and Inventions

[EvilGrin5000]

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Isn't there someone that holds the "Origami Hexagon Fold" Patent that is going to sue them?

How about someone holding the "Using waves to view internal organs in a human body" Patent?

Or maybe the "Etching of ultrasound emitting device on silicon wafers" patent?

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Seriously,

if this invention grows to be used in humans, it will really provide some serious insights on disease prevention and diagnosis. I just hope that the patent morons don't destroy another inventive design much like they did with poor Vonage.