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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the cue-the-bad-puns dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Snow on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:04PM

    by Snow (1601) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:04PM (#623159) Journal

    No wonder your breath smells like ass.

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