The picture is available here:

http://i.cmpnet.com/eetimes/news/06/08/DC1437_TEARDOWN_PG_48.gif

And the article is here:

http://www.eetimes.com/issue/fp/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192200168&printable=true

Or you can go to http://eetimes.com and search for "pillcam".  You may
need to register (free, perhaps bugmenot works) to access some or all
of the above.

-Adam

On 9/6/06, Gus S Calabrese <gsc@omegadogs.com> wrote:
> 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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