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New Device Lets You Track Flatulence Forming in Your Stomach on Your Phone

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Just because we CAN do stuff like this with technology, does it mean we SHOULD?

A group of scientists in Australia just completed the first successful test of a new invention:  A little electronic pill that you swallow to monitor the FLATULENCE in your stomach.

And it lets you watch the flatulence forming in real time on your cell phone. 

I guess it has practical applications, like seeing what foods give you gas, or...I don't know...knowing when a big, noxious emission is coming so you can preemptively roll down the windows in your car?

Anyway, we're still probably a few years away from these pills being ready to hit the market.  So until then, you'll just have to keep guessing what's causing such horrible stuff to happen inside your gut.

Read more --> ARS Technica


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