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I read a lot of Tech rags every month and every once in a while a new technology catches my eye. This was one of them.

http://www.givenimaging.com/

 

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Israeli company, Given Imaging is taking PC-driven technologies in another direction -- making it possible for us to see inside our own navels!

 

Well, not our navels, exactly -- but this tiny high-tech pill actually delivers pictures of our intestines as it takes its journey from input to output.

 

It is a painless procedure, no anesthesia and hospital visit that goes with a traditional colonoscopy. Your doctor prescribes this high tech "pill," and it will do its thing as you continue with your daily activities. If you've ever gone through a traditional colonoscopy, you'll appreciate just how significant a step forward this merging of technology and medical science can be! In this case, the patient wears a belt containing an array of non-invasive sensors and antennas. He or she then pops the pill, which contains a miniature color video camera, lights, a battery, and a wireless transmitter. During the next few hours as the pill wafts its way through the digestive system, it takes its digital snaps every few seconds and wirelessly transmits them to the belt-mounted receiver and storage unit. At the same time, the antenna array maps the 3D progress of the pill through the body, annotating the exact location of each picture. Once the patient returns the belt-mounted equipment back to the doctor's office, the data from the storage unit is downloaded into a PC, where the images, along with a map showing each image's position, are available to the physician as both a series of still images and as a video clip.

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