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Live Pictures From Inside Your Stomach

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 12, 2012 @08:04AM from the coming-soon-to-slashdot-tv dept.

Dupple writes "Our own stomachs may be something of a dark mystery to most of us, but new research is revealing the surprising ways in which our guts exert control over our mood and appetite. Not many of us get the chance to watch our own stomach's digestion in action. But along with an audience at London's Science Museum, I recently watched live pictures from my own stomach as the porridge I had eaten for breakfast was churned, broken up, exposed to acid and then pushed out into my small intestine as a creamy mush called chyme."

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A better summary by DL117 · 2012-07-12 08:21 · Score: 4, Informative

Capsule Endoscopy: It exists!
1. Re:A better summary by SimonTheSoundMan · 2012-07-12 08:49 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  This one looks more fun to watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vrkv9
Porridge is all well and good by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-12 08:27 · Score: 5, Funny

But I'd rather watch something more upscale be digested. Come now, there's no chyme like the pheasant.
Pill camera teardown video by mikeselectricstuff · 2012-07-12 09:39 · Score: 2

For those interested in the insides of the camera, a while ago I 'recovered' one and did This teardown video
1. Re:Pill camera teardown video by slimjim8094 · 2012-07-12 13:43 · Score: 2
  
  You're talking about something called gimbal lock, and yes that is generally the concern.
  
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Where ... by Evil+Pete · 2012-07-12 16:58 · Score: 2

... Fantastic Voyage feared to go. Don't tell me how it ends, I've heard it's crap.

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