good now some plasma pulse cannon on the way

mpar

@prix: Heck yes! Actually you would be surprised how "Star Trek-ish" wound healing has become in your lifetime. My dad is a surgeon and currently runs a wound clinic where they sometimes subject patients to the hyperbaric chamber for healing wounds. It's just a chamber filled with 85% or better oxygen and pressurized to 2-3 atmospheres.

@ackthbbft: I'll second that!

whiteknight

@strider_mt2k: There's more?!?!

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

... will it do finger and toe nails? Or, even more awesome... nose hairs! ?

ANoel

Cool, now where is my plasma-sword??

ackthbbft

@hu_hu_cool: But WAIT!

strider_mt2k

@Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy: all that $19.99! wow!

hu_hu_cool

Finally Some Real Star Trek Type stuff. Now all we need is dermal regenerators and then we will be set

prix

@Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy: Huh,huh, he said nut driver.

Siouxperman

Medium-well to well-done for me Doc!.

aec007

Is it available in any other color schemes? I don't think that green looks good on me.

LittleJon

Does this remind anyone of a late night infomercial? Someone shows you how the product works. Then they show one or two "inferior" products at work, usually which slip, stick, or cause damage, wielded slowly and clumsily by someone incompetent to the voice over of "What a mess!". Example

+ Watch video

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Unnecessary surgery here I come!

Xenocide

So... when are we going to start seeing this in use during robotic surgeries?

DisposableInterloper

So when do we get plasma swords?

beeg

that looked like a baked potato.

deadsylent

@hu_hu_cool: well, i'm not too sure how it would work for paper, but they got these newfangled things called "scissors" or some craziness like that that works pretty well.

Anomynoose

The FDA's just okayed it for marketing in the US, so it may be coming to an OR near you soon.

O R They?

Sorry, had to.

Amsterdaam

It still doesnt make me want to rush in and get an operation, but i wonder would it be anygood for papercraft.

hu_hu_cool

Does it inject CO2 as well?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Cool, can you say surgical micro light saber?? :)

BobG9638

I can't wait till they Marry this thing to the Wasp knife.

Nemesisesq

@russdanger: and how! but it's a good thing barbaric can refer to something primitive. which i'm sure is equated with poor grammar skills in your mind (as well it should, old boy).

Anomynoose

Cutting open a person for surgery using a plain old scalpel seems pretty *barbaric*.

A barbarian is a person; a person with poor grammar skills.

russdanger

@Anomynoose: This was a failed electric toothbrush peripheral for the original XBox.

Rabid Penguin

O.R smores?

Wakeley

@Anomynoose: Yeah, the first thing that came to my mind was electric toothbrush, but not a normal one, one made for kids.

I mean, it seems like it'll be a great product and all, but let's make it look like a grown-up tool, k?

Platypus Man

A new brush for Scar Artists.

ANoel

i prefer the smokey way better, it adds a kinda 'rebellious' sense to my operations .

this thing looks stupid and toy-like. IS IT BATTERY OPERATED!

Jakey69

I smell hot dogs!

strider_mt2k

i'm pretty sure that's the electric toothbrush i was just prescribed. my dentist just may hate me.

Anomynoose

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a welder.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

@Duckspwn: "ex vivo" human skin. Probably a skin analog, or cadaver skin.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

What exactly were they cutting in that vid anyways...
"The Plasma Blade now comes in fun new colours like Green, Pink, Yellow, and Blue!" For all the surgeons worried if their scalpel matches their clothes. =D

Duckspwn

This reminds me of the Night Gallery episode titled "The Little Black Bag" [www.imdb.com]

In the episode a washed out doctor finds a black bag from the future that contains a scalpel that automatically cuts repairs and seals the incision.

Science fiction inspires reality.

JimboGizmo

@Anomynoose: Oh, you are such a card!

russdanger

@hu_hu_cool: @strider_mt2k: Can it cut through a aluminum can, a hammer, then cut a toe into slices so thin, they only have one side?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

oh that is such awsomeness.
almost enough to make me consider med school
of course. there's always the black marklet
just imagine the applications for this in taxidermy.

Titus_Andronicus

I couldn't help but lol at "The Peak Plasma Blade from Peak Surgical, a tissue dissection system that represents a quantum leap over surgical instruments in use today."

They're going to take over the world.

Xander

Surgeons using 'bovi' knives tend to inhale 'bovi smoke' which is basically the result of electrocuting the tissue with much of it turning into major carcinogen containing smoke. And then the patient turns around and sues the doctor who risks their health/life to help the patient. Great world we live in these days.

eff-nuts.

banmojo

@Xander: With a device like that they could -- dare I say it -- rule the world.

macserv

"Ex vivo" human skin IS cadaver skin. "Ex vivo" means "out of the living." So yes, they were demonstrating this on cadaveric flesh.

The "in vivo porcine model" means a living (anesthetized) pig.

pwillow1

@banmojo: Is it wrong I find it slightly amusing that anything from the human body can become carcinogenic?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Awesome! Now does it cut through bone cause that's the final requirement for it to make it to plasma sword status.

Kamenwati

@Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy: Humans are bad for you.

Roivas

@Duckspwn: ex vivo = cadaver skin, maybe a liberated thigh

throwinglittlepickles

This sounds a lot like the plasma wands that AthroCare [www.arthrocareent.com] has been making for a few yeas, but I thought they had the patent on it.

Gloper