New sensor pill like a "Fitbit" you can swallow to monitor your stomach

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/10/12/a-fitbit-you-can-swallow-t.html

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[Mister44]

So it’s like a “Fitbit” you have to rummage through your poo to recover?

[RickMycroft]

It’ll be a passing fad.

[TripleE]

OH HELL NO!

Also, didn’t they do this in the second Austin Powers movie?

[anon24181555]

Like the Jetson’s doctor had?

[anon27554371]

Just the first phase of a long and complicated design process.

Waiting to hear when these can be turned into The Everything-Killers.

https://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem.html

[failrate]

Obviously, it’s a ShitBit.

[TheGreatParis]

Nothing new.

http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/1998/glenn.asp

[Boundegar]

Nothing new.

[anon61221983]

[KillGore1]

What does it do if you strap it to to your wrist?

[Exonauts]

But how do they remove tiny Dennis Quaid from his microscopic prison when it’s over?

[FGD135]

Well, they do say that the stomach is the window to the soul.