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If you think ol' Bowser may be sick and running a fever, a new implanted microchip might be able to clue you in on that fact for certain.

St. Paul, Minn.-based Digital Angel Corp. on Monday announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a patent for a syringe-implantable microchip that uses radio frequency technology to determine the body temperature of its host animal. Potential applications for the chip include non-invasive monitoring of temperatures in cats, dogs, livestock and horses and early detection of infectious diseases such as bird flu in poultry.

The bird flu thing seems useful, but I don't know if I like the idea of even slightly cybernetic dogs. What's to stop Bowser from going rogue and firing advanced medium-range tactical missiles at his owner and then having retaliatory strikes ricochet off his Teflon hide. Perhaps I digress...

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