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Medidome Syringe Aims for Veins with Kid-Friendly Design

We've brought you inventions that aim to replace the scary-looking hypodermic syringe before, but this new design reinvents the device in a kid-friendly package. Designed by Christopher Holden, a student at Northumbria University in the UK, MediDome combines drug and needle in a stick-on blister, designed for a single use only. So it reduces the risk of needle-stick injury, and looks much friendlier to kids. You simply stick it on, and compress it until the drug is delivered: it's even got an integrated alert system to check you've not ruptured a vein, and a built-in tamper warning. It's now being patented, so it's a product we might actually see for real sometime. [Medgadget]

7:59 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,413 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: @Sora57 My thoughts exactly. Except I was thinking of a Morphine easy button. more »

science

Scientists Do Micro-Origami, Make Tiny Drug-Delivery Package

Researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute produced this amazing pyramid, around 30 microns across, which may one day be used to deliver precise micro- or nano-doses of medication. The structures, dubbed "voxels" are made of silicon, cut into flats and then folded up and sealed to enclose tiny volumes of space inside. The team hasn't stopped at pyramids either— they've tried flat envelopes, cubes and partial dodecahedra, but these don't close together the way the pyramid does. More »

10:15 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,925 views, 23 comments

Latest by frigg: @scarbrtj: Why stop at medical research? Perhaps if the Girl Scouts started selling nano-cookies, they too could clean up on the nano-fad. Oddly, I think I'd be more apt to buy a box of microscopic nano-mints to support a decent more »