Norwegian researchers are busy developing a next-generation camera pill that can deliver high-definition video imaging.

The HD camera pill will employ wireless ultra-wideband technology with enough bandwidth to handle live, high-quality video transmission of observations from the intestine, they say. The pill will also communicate its coordinates via radio frequency so that doctors can pinpoint its location in the body.

This video (in Norwegian and English) shows how researchers inserted the pill into a pig and received images back.

Dan O'Connor