You’ve heard the urban legend: in slumber we swallow, on average, 7 spiders a year. Now here’s a spider that you’d swallow intentionally. A cracker jack team of scientists in Italy have come up with a spider-like pill intended to film your insides to detect diseases and other potential health hazards. Personally, I would have preferred the Magic-School-Bus pill — but that’s just me.

Once the pill goes down the hatch doctors control the spider’s tiny legs to maneuver around and record your insides. It all works remotely via Wi-Fi. Not the kind of drug I imagine Huey Lewis had in mind.

Forget the life-saving opportunities — this just makes being a doctor sound fun. Trade in that scalpel for a video game joystick, and off we go.

There seems to be a real trend in healthcare automation. As technological advances plow on faster than you can say “right-to-privacy,” resistance is basically futile. Is this the beginning of a healthcare dystopia where tiny robots tweet status updates from your liver or am I just being paranoid?