Japanese folk monsters and medical illustration...two great tastes that go great together! Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki published a book called Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai which details the inner workings of the monsters in my nightmares. My favorite: the Kijimunaa: a forest sprite with ball bearing eyes and a specialized mouth adapted to eat it’s favorite snack– the eyeballs of fish.

When they said “Vanity is the quicksand of reason”, I think they were talking about these guys. Eye surgeons in the Netherlands have started a fashion trend by inserting jewelry into the eyeball (ick!). In the procedure, they cut the superficial conjuctiva beside the cornea and slip a small piece of platinum inside. I’m all for tattoos and piercings, but I’ll have to say that eye modification is a no-no.

Click HERE for the graphic video of the procedure in all its glory. WARNING: if you don’t like to see needles poking into eyes, then you might wanna pass.

Being a huge toy fan, it takes an exceptional doll action figure to get my geek juices flowing. Enter the Barak Obama Super Action Cool Tremendous Dexterity Figure (that’s what i think it says on the page). Featuring multiple heads, hands, and articulation points, it can also dual wield katanas and battle the sith! When I voted for him, I had no idea. Be sure to check out the rest of the images to see what else you can make our president do!

A Doctor can train a robot how to do heart surgery, but can he teach it how to love? Probably not, but I think the former is pretty neat. An italian cardiologist created a robot that performed an entire cardiovascular surgery unassisted. The 50-minute surgery was done completely by the robot, without any input from its flesh masters. The robot learned how to perform the surgery by analyzing data from 10,000 real surgeries. "The robot can now recognize the type of patient and the required method of operating." Spoooooky. I can't wait for it to become sentient and decide that a patient is not fit to live. It almost sounds like Michael Crichton's next crappy screenplay.