Tiny camera in a pill enables nonsurgical imaging of your insides


	Tiny camera in a pill enables nonsurgical imaging of your insides

adamc

5-13-2006 2:22 PM

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camera, pill, endoscopy, wireless, rfid, health, gastrointestinal tract, imaging, nonsurgical, given imaging

adamc says:

Who's ready to swallow a camera? Read about this in a great book -- Ambient Findability.

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5-13-2006 5:12 PM

kristenjo

So I think this was definitely in a movie way back in the day (80s/90s). Or maybe it was in a sitcom or somethin'. Or I could've just watched it on TLC last year...

Anyway, it totally reminds me of Innerspace, except I'd put money on the fact that there's no microscopic Dennis Quaid boozin' it up inside that thing. And it's a pill, not an injection. But other than that, totally the same.

5-13-2006 5:16 PM

Kore7

Innerspace

5-14-2006 2:42 PM

adamc

Innerspace

Totally.

5-14-2006 5:30 PM

kristenjo

Fantastic Voyage?

5-14-2006 6:11 PM

adamc

yup

5-16-2006 11:58 AM

kristenjo

YES! I rock.

5-16-2006 12:14 PM

BigBadWolf

I rock.

I don't believe he was asking what your head was filled with.

This science is starting to catch up with a lot of old movie cliches.

5-16-2006 12:44 PM

kristenjo

OK, Wolf, you just broke the peace treaty. This war is so back on.

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