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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The Incredible Shrinking Camera

Biomedical engineers have pulled off something like the shrinking submarine, except it’s real. This time, it’s a miniature camera in a capsule.

Doctors use this camera capsule to examine the inside of the small intestine, one part of the body that’s hard to reach with more conventional diagnostic tools.

It carries a camera on a computer chip, light source, radio transmitter and a battery.

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