Smartpill: Time Your Dog’s Turd

Breaking news from the realm of science, as SmartPill Corp. announces it has begun trials of its SmartPill GI Monitoring System for “evaluation of gastrointestinal motility disorders.”

The SmartPill pH.p Capsule is a wireless, ingestible medical device — about the size of a large vitamin pill — that measures pressure and pH and temperature and provides gastric emptying time, combined small and large bowel transit time, and total transit time. The Capsule travels through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, collecting and transmitting data to the SmartPill Data Receiver worn by the patient. When the test is complete, the data is downloaded to a computer for analysis.

Truly, is there nothing science cannot do? I mean that a tablespoon of Crisco, a corn cob, and a stopwatch couldn’t handle?

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