North Carolina football players testing pill that can give body temperature readings

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 17:49 in Physics & Chemistry

At first, it was hard for University of North Carolina football player Kendric Burney to swallow. They handed him a pill containing a battery, thermometer and radio transmitter and told him it would lodge in his intestine, where it would stick around for one to two days to measure his core body heat.

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