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| | Wired News: Pill Monitors Athletes' Body Heat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | But now there is, in the form of a swallowed capsule that measures core body temperature as it passes through the digestive system, and the Vikings -- along with a few other NFL teams -- are using it. |
 | | The Core Temp Ingestible Core Body Temperature Sensor was developed in the late 1980s by HQ, of Palmetto, Florida, as a research tool used for a number of projects, including monitoring how certain pharmaceutical drugs affect the body's core temperature. |
 | | The Vikings, Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles are using the device to gauge the effect of suffocating heat on huge athletes going through intense August workouts in pads and a helmet. |
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