Smart Pill Reports on Body from the Inside 55
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."
Look out (Score:5, Funny)
And we were worried about the government wire-tapping our phones?
Here's hoping... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Pre-Existing Orificies! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm just glad it exits thru Pre-existing Orifices
Prexisting orifices? (Score:5, Funny)
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
I am completely blown away by this (Score:2, Funny)
Oblig Futurama (Score:3, Funny)
(P.S. Some of us enjoyed the old style 'uncomfortable' probing)
This is ripe for sniffing. (Score:4, Funny)
Receivers in promiscuous mode. Sniff away.
Re:I am completely blown away by this (Score:3, Funny)