Posted on 01/08/2018 9:42:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
It's an ingestible electronic capsule that senses certain gases released in the human gut – some of the same stuff that you may already be familiar with when it eventually passes into the open air.
The capsule's creator, electrical engineer Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, a professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, says that the device has already begun revealing secrets about the human gut.
To test the capsule, Kalantar-Zadeh enlisted 26 healthy volunteers – one being himself. Each person ate the same diet to help rule out food as a cause for different results, except for two volunteers who ate a high-fiber diet and two others who got one with little fiber.
"We didn't have any problems," he says. But they did notice some oddities. For one, Kalantar-Zadeh says that the pill's data showed some curious oxygen measurements in the stomach. Apparently the stomach was releasing harsh oxidizing chemicals along with typical stomach acid to aid digestion. "It's a very simple phenomenon, but nobody had ever observed it before," he says.
The results of the testing were published Monday in the journal Nature Electronics.
At roughly an inch long and half an inch wide, the electronic pill looks something like the biggest multivitamin a human could reasonably swallow. Curled around its tiny batteries is an antenna that beams data out of the body where it can be viewed on a nearby smartphone.
A membrane on the capsule's nose lets gases through to a sensor that detects concentrations of oxygen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Kalantar-Zadeh says those three gases were picked because they provide important information about the gut.
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Can you imagine how bad she smells ...and Huma had to sniff those poots every day in order to do her work for he Muslim Brotherhood.
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Perfect place for an article about gas, NPR. They know a thing or two about that subject.
Just what the leftist central planners need. A tracking device up your arse, to justify taxing everyone for emitting Satanic “greenhouse gases”.
They need to test 26 Dogs.
I’ve got 2 they can start with.
The 1st thing I want to know is are My 2 REALLY eating dead rats ?
Because it sure seems like it when they rip one off...
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