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Friday, November 13, 2009
Science

Aussie Scientists Are Hard At Work Growing Bigger Boobs

1:40PM Sean Fallon | Even though there are benefits to artificial enhancement, sometimes “natural” is the way to go. Imagine if plastic surgeons could grow boobs instead of relying on traditional implants? It could happen sooner than you think. More »
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Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced To An Xbox Game

7:40AM John Herrman | 3D medical imagery has always been fascinating to me: Generating 3D models from film footage is still a fledgling tech, while medical professionals render guts on a daily basis. And sometimes, apparently, connected to Xbox controllers. More »
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Science

The Six Million Dollar Man’s Cyborg Surgery In Today’s Dollars

7:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today? More »
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Cup&Up Surgically Implanted Bras Won’t Affect Lingerie Sales

9:40AM Rosa Golijan | I cannot fathom why any woman would want to surgically shove a silicon bra into her body. Sure, your breasts will look perfectly shaped and perky even once the clothes come off, but you’ll also have bra straps going through your muscles and ribs. More »
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Science

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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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Science

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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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Science

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 »
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
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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