The August 21 issue of Electronic Engineering Times has a "teardown"  
report
on page 48.  I can send a jpeg to anyone who is interested.

The pill camera runs for 8 hours and is 26.4mm and 11.3 mm wide.
It takes a picture every 0.5 seconds with a color CMOS image sensor  
that is 256 by 256 pixels.

The pill seems pretty dumb, it runs continuously while in the body.   
A Zigbee transceiver seems like it would
save power by imaging when there was something to look at.

I did not see any mention of a method to aim the camera.  That would  
be useful.  Maybe some external
method.  Recharging the batteries from the outside would be really  
cool as the pill appears to be as large as
it is because of batteries.

I imagine that the swallower has to fast for some time before  
ingesting the pillCAM to make for a "clean shot".

I would like to try something like this on myself.  Eliminates an  
annoying rectal probe.
What is the largest item the body will pass thru itself ?  Who among  
you would like to work on
a project like this and sell it as a kit ?


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