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Robots
Robot-Performed Autopsies: It’s Like Having A Stunt Double Corpse
10:40AM Rosa Golijan | Virtual autopsies create 3D images of deceased bodies to be used for examination. Save for having robots make micro-incisions for tissue samples, real bodies can rest at peace while the virtual stunt corpses are chopped apart. Goodbye, CSI-induced nightmares! More »
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Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery
5:20PM Rosa Golijan | Apparently plasma knives—surgical instruments which have glowing, ionised gas as a blade—have passed Special Operations Command’s field testing and evaluation stages. Great! Now how much longer until this tech can be used to make real lightsabers? More »
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Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer In Real Time
1:20AM Matt Buchanan | When surgeons dig around inside of you trying to cut out a tumour, they’re actually going off of pre-op info to find the tumour. An electroscalpel, combined with a mass spectrometer, will let them map cancerous cells in real time. More »
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Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | LASIK’s been around a while, and somehow it was only a matter of time before designer vision, corneas custom-tailored to lifestyle and career, started to turn common. Could laser eye surgery will become the new graduation boob job? More »
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New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!
8:20AM Mark Wilson | It’s the ultimate home theatre system that you’ll (hopefully) never be conscious to see. More »
Random Stuff
Lance Armstrong’s 12 Screws and Metal Plate in Collarbone Make Him a Low-Grade Cyborg
8:08AM Brian Lam | Lance Armstrong received surgery to more quickly fix his collarbone, which was broken into 4 pieces during a bicycle race in Spain. I wonder if he knows that the metal from the screws can set off the metal detectors in airports sometimes. (I have a titanium rod in my left tibia and the left over screw shavings set off the alarms 50% of the time, especially in higher security airports. True, as confirmed by the hand wands during the manual pat down.) More »
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Stitching Wounds Using Lasers
5:30PM Elaine Chow | We know lasers cut things, but now they’re being used to stitch things up too? Doctors at Tel Aviv University have figured out a way to weld skin shut by meticulously control a laser’s heat. More »
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Proteus Motor Swims Through Bloodstream, Looks Pretty Much Like a Sperm
12:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | The tiny Proteus motor, at only 2.5 times the width of a human hair, is small enough to enter the bloodstream and perform duties previously requiring some surgical slice-and-dice. More »
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Bomb Victim Fitted With Cyborg Arm That Fuses With Her Own Skin and Bone
11:00AM Sean Fallon | Kira Mason, a victim of the London bombing attacks in July of 2005 has been fitted with a cyborg arm that fuses with her own skin and bone. The procedure has been called “a breakthrough.” More »
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