Would you swallow this camera-in-a-pill?:
Endoscopy is a generic term for minimally invasive surgery of any part of the body. Instead of a colonoscopy, which can make you feel very uncomfortable, with endoscopy surgery, very small instruments, such as cameras, are inserted through small incisions to operate with minimal damage to healthy areas. But until now, these cameras were out of control after you swallowed them. According to New Scientist, this is no longer true. Italian researchers have designed a new camera-in-a-pill which can move or stop according to what your doctors want to see and which is radio-controlled. Human trials should begin soon.Here is how current cameras operate, according to New Scientist:
Existing camera capsules designed to take images of the intestine cannot be controlled externally, so they simply drift through the gut along with everything else. “It’s like watching the view from a train window,” says the bot’s developer, Arianna Menciassi of the Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. “If you see something of interest, there’s no way to turn back and get a better look.”
I seem to recall watching an old Disney sci-fi-esque movie from the ’60s that involved shrinking a crew of medical doctors, smaller than the size of blood cells - ala ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids‘ style. Their mission was to use some kind of “laser” technology to destroy some damage that was inhibiting a colleague’s brain (you would think that in the age when you could safely shrink a human to the size of a cell the technologists would also be able to insert a little robot which could do the same task).
The contrived white-knuckle drama involved the cliché Dr. Sparty Pants, who rashly left the miniaturized vessel (note: not only was the crew shrunk to microscopic proportions, but so was an entire mini-sub). He was randomly attacked by some white antibodies, though it was probably a hate crime because he was old and bald.
Anyways, everyone else escaped via the patients tear duct and were remagnified (sic), biggie sized or whatever the proper term is. So therefore don’t do drugs, stay in school.