From today's Numlock News:
Good Vibrations
A new study is investigating the potential for vibrating diet pills, which have been found to considerably cut food intake in experiments conducted on pigs. The thought goes that vibrations will stimulate nerve endings in the stomach wall that indicate fullness to the brain, and these vibrations might be delivered by means of a 31-by-10-millimeter pill that shakes for 38 minutes upon arrival in the stomach. When inserted into young pigs that were around the size of a human, they found that their vibration-induced hormonal changes were the same as those after consuming a meal, and that animals ate 40 percent less than the control group.
