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ICYMI: Pill-sized robot cleans your innards and much more
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-73123{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-73123, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-73123{width:570px;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-73123").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: MIT created an origami robot made of pig intestine that researchers have big plans for. Meanwhile on the Kickstarter circuit, someone made an art display that can autonomously plug itself in when the battery gets low, and created a viewfinder that shows you where people have applied sunscreen, and where they've missed. If you're in the market for a new bike lock, do consider scaring the hell out of thieves with the Bike Mine. As always, please share any great tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.
MIT's tiny robot operates on your stomach from the inside
Imagine this: you accidentally swallowed a battery (!), and to get it out, you need to take a pill that turns into a robot. Researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new kind of origami robot that transforms into a microsurgeon inside your stomach. They squished the accordion-like robot made of dried pig intestine inside a pill, which the stomach acid dissolves. A magnet embedded in the middle allows you or a medical practitioner to control the microsurgeon from the outside using another magnet. It also picks up the battery or other objects stuck inside your stomach.
