Medical
Eye Heart Me
06/09/2009 01:51 PM
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.
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Domo Arigato Dr. Roboto
05/20/2006 06:47 AM
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.
