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As someone who’s had multiple colonoscopies in my 30’s I’ve been watching this tech closely. It’s seems incredibly less invasive and a huge leap towards better GI health in general. I’m ready to swallow a camera.

This isn't about a new view of the digestive system. The first capsule endoscope was swallowed in 1997.

Good luck retrieving them, though.

We already have capsule endoscopies, the problem is that because of the power requirements they generally take a few pictures at a time interval and with a blinking light. But if there better battery technology they can get much better images and more of them.

I did a camera scope several years ago. The only pain was I had to stay at the hospital for almost 6 hours as it passes through. Wore a little battery pack on my belt, but was free to roam hospital. I asked about retrieving camera, they said don’t worry they do not reuse them.

A new view of your small intestine which won't show much because it's packed with chyme.

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Capsule endoscopies generally do prep work to prevent this in the first place.