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Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon
Sockatume writes "Scientists in Italy have developed a robot which will move around the lower digestive tract using legs. The 'Spider-Pill' is fitted with a camera and will stow its legs until it reaches the lower intestine. Once there it can crawl around and take pictures under direction from surgeons. Its USP is that it's more appealing than an endoscopy." The BBC also has video.
>Scientists in Italy have developed which will move around the lower digestive tract using legs.
Have developed what? Developed which?
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
It stands for unique selling proposition. I would like to point out that "more appealing that an endoscopy" is not unique at all.
welco... Aaaah! Aaaah! GET IT OUT!
Ever seen "Wild, Wild Planet", a.k.a. "I criminali della gallassia"? The Italians have had this distinction since at least 1965.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
"If I had points, I'd give you +1, Funny. ;)"
I was hoping for +1 Informative.
People who are opposed to endoscopy need to find a new gastroenterologist who is familiar with medications like demerol/versed or propofol. Seriously, I have had a couple dozen scopes in my life (colonoscopies, sigmoidoscopies and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatographies... i.e. ERCPs) and the worst part of all of them was the preparation before hand. I'm not a large guy and I have some digestion issues, so fasting and "prepping" for 24 hours before hand makes me pretty miserable. The actual scope is pretty relaxing comparatively speaking...
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand this sig, and those that beat up people who do.
...Up the water spout,
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,
Wave did the spider to the surprised proctologist,
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.