As a modern human living in our modern society, I’m pleased with a lot of the technological progress we’ve made over the years. Specifically, the medical marvels that we use daily to help us live better lives are wonders to behold. However, every now and then I learn about something that makes me yearn for the days of biting down on a bullet and toughing it out while a dirty-handed sawbones rummages around your insides like a kid searching for the Tootsie Rolls in a packed plastic jack o’ lantern.
See, the latest tech innovation is a tiny camera inside a pill that would allow physicians to better see what’s going on inside our bodies in an attempt to make more accurate diagnoses. That’s great, except for the part where they’ve attached miniscule legs to the outside of the pill so that it can be remotely controlled like a toy T-Rex.
Oh my GODS why would you swallow one of these? Ever have one of those itches that moves from place to place as you scratch at it? Now imagine it moving inside your body where you can’t scratch it. And that’s the hopeful scenario. What if its little legs do damage? Do you realize how tender our precious internal organs are? If one of these things goes for walkies inside your small intestine, how long do you think it would be before one of the legs just tears a little hole in the tissue? Thanks, doc, I was worried I had internal bleeding before; now at last I’ve confirmed it!
I’m going with Michael Crichton on this one: just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
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pablo
October 15th, 2009 - 3:31:08 PM
technology mang, it'll fuck your shit up
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