It's a fart-measuring pill:
Scientists often hope to break ground with their research. But a group of Australian researchers would likely be happy with breaking wind.
The team developed an ingestible electronic capsule [open, DOI: 10.1038/s41928-017-0004-x] to monitor gas levels in the human gut. When it's paired with a pocket-sized receiver and a mobile phone app, the pill reports tail-wind conditions in real time as it passes from the stomach to the colon. The researchers, led by Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh of RMIT University and Peter Gibson of Monash University, reported their invention Monday in Nature Electronics.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:45AM (1 child)
Lots of jokes, but your farts only come from the last 30cm of so of the large intestines. Most of the rest of the gas is absorbed into your blood and goes out through your lungs. This device may be used to try to correlate the two.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Snow on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:04PM
No wonder your breath smells like ass.