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    INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢

    10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic

    Ultimate Flu Vaccine to Give You One Less Excuse for Missing Work
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢
    Sorry, but this looks like some kind of mechanized butt kissing device.
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    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢
    They should also release an INFART model.
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    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢
    I'm going to make my kids wear these until they're in their teens. It will help them improve their immune systems while also making them impervious to public ridicule.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/30/09

    @weatherman: And once they're in their teens you're going to make them fight upon a mountain top to determine which one is the hero and which one is the villian?
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    Image of noahyamen noahyamen
    11/30/09

    @RoboBagins: You can joke, but its true. Their immunity would be stronger, and i guess its one way to learn humility
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    11/30/09

    @noahyamen: Who said I was joking.

    Also, I tripped my brother off the mountain...
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    11/30/09

    @RoboBagins: So you are the villian? Just you watch, the other brother will come back even stronger after years of training with the reclusive mountain ninjas.
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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢
    There was an article at MedGadget about a study of the effectiveness of ordinary masks and respirators in medical settings. Turns out that they really don't prevent much unless they're tight-fitting, multi-layered, and biocide-treated. I bought a box of plain masks yesterday, not so much to prevent getting sick, as to help me not spread colds 'n such as easily (which is really what masks are good for anyway). I wonder if you can reverse the airflow on this mask so that you can share your bugs more easily with friends.
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    Image of MacAttack7388 MacAttack7388
    11/30/09

    @ninjagin: I like the way you think.
    We'd be friends... but I'm afraid I'd end up with sars.
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    11/30/09

    @ninjagin: Judging by the looks of that fan, reversing the airflow should be as simple as removing the fan and reinstalling it facing the other way. That design should fit the bracket both ways.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢
    Doesn't make sense. The valve the fan is replacing is the "cool breeze" valve, which lets the exhaled warm humid air escape out the front instead of around the edge of the mask, which fogs your glasses. with this set up, when you exhale, you will be working against the fan, and running down the battery and making the fans life decrease.
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collectorâ„¢
    I think the better use for this is for preventing swamp ass.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    Fallon, how could you miss this precious little doodad?


    [gizmodo.com]


    I understand it's not up to snuff on everyone's sense of "morality", but no doubt it'll get the job done.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    I see an awesome opportunity for Taco John's. The Taco John's MexiFlu meal. Comes with a pulled pork sandwich, a drink, a surgical mask, and a pound of potato oles. I hope they don't pass this opportunity up.
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    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    No nuclear grade duct tape?


    In the end though, I'll use the same thing issued to the members of Police Squad:

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    05/01/09

    @WolfBaconFlavorMANGURT_GitEmSt...: It's Enrico Pillatzo!!!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    05/01/09

    @fumunda: No, it's Frank!
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    Its a epidamnpemic! Everyone Panic!


    Or, just let the weak be culled from the herd.

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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    Grgk!!


    Please stop saying pork is related to swine flu. It was from pigs at some point, but it can't infect them anymore and thus won't spread through them to more of us (it's not the same connection like avian flu had to chicken). Even if it were, it turns out flus aren't prions (that cause mad cow), they get cooked and denatured. So unless you're eating raw pork, or touching your face with raw pork juice, you're in no risk.


    If the media keeps villainizing pigs in every flipping broadcast and post, the senseless masses will stop buying pork, and then I'll have to pay more for it. Not cool!

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    05/01/09

    @kagekiri: Actually humans CAN get the swine flew from pigs... just not from eating them. It's an airborne virus.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/01/09

    @Rabid Penguin: Actually, it's spread by droplets (though it's true that the droplets could be in the air).
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    05/01/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: That's why kids should start eating dirt and inhaling markers and crap at a young age... to build up their immune system.
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    05/01/09

    @Rabid Penguin: Yeah, I realize it's airborne, I just thought it was no longer cross-species infectious. And as I mentioned, the NBC website is giving me different info than the nightly news : [


    I remember seeing the development of allergies and immune system video in high school. It was pretty much saying: let your kid eat food that falls on the floor, make him/her run outside in allergy season, get stung by common bugs, eat every kind of food, never wash their hands, just to make sure he's exposed while his/her immune system is top notch. Sounds like a fun and free (and often sick) childhood, but also sounds a bit like poor parenting by today's standards.

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    05/01/09

    @kagekiri: Today's standards almost seems idiotic. I actually have a few friends who's families' are germaphobes and they're obsessed with disenfecting everything and crap like that... And yet those families get sick more than anyone else I know.


    Roll in the dirt kids - and maybe eat some of it. It's for your own good.

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    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    I don't see the canned chicken on that list...


    Wasn't that the whole point of posting it on here in the first place?


    It wasn't?


    I ate canned chicken for nothing?

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    Image of Nick Dina Nick Dina
    05/01/09

    @tande04: i am assuming then that you're on a laptop. sittin on a porcelain throne right now.
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    Image of robot-shmobot robot-shmobot
    05/01/09

    @Nick Dina: Probably has the laptop on the vanity with a bucket up front because it's spraying from both ends.
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    Image of Nick Dina Nick Dina
    05/01/09

    @robot-shmobot: i'm so jealous. he is gonna look so thin.
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    05/01/09

    @Nick Dina: Didn't they just recall that diet drug that makes you seep oil from your posterior?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    05/01/09

    @robot-shmobot: Olestra?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    I thought the 160 deaths was a false number. The real number is more like 13 so far.


    [www.smh.com.au]

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    Image of Epoch Epoch
    05/01/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: i thought that was interesting too.


    "OVER 160 PRESUMED DEAD!!!"


    *days pass*


    "the actual death toll is 13."


    thanks media, for promoting national hysteria.


    infomania had a great section about this:


    [current.com]

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    05/01/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets That Can Protect You From The Swine Flu Pandemic
    My bacon-love has spread to CNBC! WOOHOO!
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