New "Endoscope On a Pill"

ScienceDaily is reporting that a new form of endoscope developed at the University of Washington is more like swallowing a pill than the typical "massive" cable. The pill, complete with a 1.4 mm wide tether, contains a single optical fiber for illumination and six fibers for collecting light. "Once swallowed, an electric current flowing through the UW endoscope causes the fiber to bounce back and forth so that its lone electronic eye sees the whole scene, one pixel at a time. At the same time the fiber spins and its tip projects red, green and blue laser light. The image processing then combines all this information to create a two-dimensional color picture."

Comments

It's like a party in your stomach!

[zlexiss]

It's like a party in your stomach!

Re:It's like a party in your stomach!

[emurphy42]

(Fry opens his mouth)
Zoidberg: Guess again.

Re:It's like a party in your stomach!

[Freeside1]

Fry: Are you crazy? I can't swallow that. Professor Farnsworth: Well, then good news! It's a suppository.

Bouncing?

[KublaiKhan]

I'd probably freak out a bit if I felt this "bouncing back and forth" inside my throat or stomach. I prefer to swallow inanimate objects, thank you; I may be a geek, but I don't go for goldfish swallowing.

Hahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

is more like swallowing a pill than the typical "massive" cable.

Goatse guy went through all that for nothing.

The Magic School Bus

[TheBearBear]

If they shape this pill like the Magic School Bus I'm down for a colonoscopy anytime

Re:The Magic School Bus

[gstoddart]

If they shape this pill like the Magic School Bus I'm down for a colonoscopy anytime

Hmmm ... so, you're saying (in public mind you) that if anyone can find anything which resembles a school bus, you're cool with having it placed up your rectum?

Errr ... good luck with that. Really. Whatever floats your butt^H^H^Hoat. ;-)

Cheers

Doctor to patient...

[name_already_taken]

I'm sorry sir, it appears you have swallowed a map.

If only they had these 20 years ago!

[sm62704]

I had a really bad hemorriod. I mean it was BAD. My then-wife finally talked me into taking it to the doctor. He scheduled a visit to a local hospital for an endoscopy, as he worried that the anal bleeding was from cancer.

Well, to make a short story even shorter, the lady doctor he sent me to shoved a big (compared to today) TV camera up my ass. I didn't like it a bit; I'd never had anything up there but shit before. She told me I had the most beautiful colin she'd seen (flattery will get you nowhere in that situation, lady).

So I went to see a proctologist. The office was dingy, and suggested dirtiness. The heavily accented doctor didn't inspire confidence, telling me I had the worst hemmoroid he'd ever seen. Not exactly what you want to hear from a doctor. "Has anyone ever died from a hemmoroid?" I asked. "No, not that I'm aware of" he said. "Has anyone ever died from hemmoroid surgery?" I asked. "Well," he answered, "there are always risks to any surgery".

I suffered with my hemmoroid for another fifteen years after that, and finally let a different doctor (a very pretty lady too) cut me a new asshole about five years ago. I think I journaled it in the old Paxil Diaries, I'm not sure. While I was unconscience they did another endoscope, most likely with a much smaller camera.

I was supposed to go back for another endoscopy last year. Guess what? I'd rather have colin cancer than have that damned TV camera shoved up my ass again!

-mcgrew