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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/03/09

    In reply to New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice
    By that logic, Tom Waits is a one man anti-anti smoking campaign.
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    Image of Michael Salazar Michael Salazar
    12/04/09

    @dingus: Or Bob Dylan
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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/04/09

    @Michael Salazar: Have you heard him recently? He sounds like a lawn trimmer hooked up to a talk box.
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    Image of stevewoz stevewoz
    12/03/09

    In reply to New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice
    I wish they could add this to my Droid.
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    Image of spannu spannu
    12/03/09

    In reply to New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice
    Sorry, but that's the definition of a good kung-fu movie. Anyone who wants better latency is misguided.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/03/09

    In reply to New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice
    What happened to stem cells? I would rather they create one in the lab and implant that.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collector™
    Sorry, but this looks like some kind of mechanized butt kissing device.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collector™
    They should also release an INFART model.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collector™
    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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    RoboBagins promoted this comment noahyamen was starred noahyamen was unstarred
    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/30/09

    @noahyamen: Who said I was joking.

    Also, I tripped my brother off the mountain...
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    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 Collector™
    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_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    11/30/09

    In reply to INFLU: The Flu Collector™
    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 Collector™
    I think the better use for this is for preventing swamp ass.
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/25/09

    In reply to Doubt Cast on Man Found to Be Conscious After 23-Year Coma
    First, I fully agree with the sentiment that it's douchey to just say "LIES! LIES! He's a VEGGIE!" There's enough at stake here that the man deserves attention.

    Two problems though. One, using functional communication (bad science) to try and back up the brain scans (better science) could lead us to all sorts of misunderstandings of what we can learn from the scans.

    Second, depending on what's actually going on in this poor guy's body, the dysfunctional communication could just be torturing him all the more if we're misinterpreting what's going on, possibly putting words in his mouth. And THAT is a travesty.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    11/25/09

    In reply to Doubt Cast on Man Found to Be Conscious After 23-Year Coma
    So a ouija board for the living, then? I was wondering how a man they didn't think was even conscious could use any kind of keyboard...

    I'm not going to conclude he's a fraud though, but I will read whatever I find about this story as it's a very scary thought that this could happen to someone...
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    11/25/09

    In reply to Doubt Cast on Man Found to Be Conscious After 23-Year Coma
    Human Ouija Board. Neat. Maybe we can use him to communicate with spirits!

    I feel fairly certain the only thing he is requesting is pornography.
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    Image of dufus dufus
    11/25/09

    In reply to Doubt Cast on Man Found to Be Conscious After 23-Year Coma
    Shouldn't we just send him to Talos IV? He'd be happier I think.
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/25/09

    In reply to Doubt Cast on Man Found to Be Conscious After 23-Year Coma
    I'm still not sure I understand exactly what's being claimed here. He was in a coma for 23 years. In 2006 a doctor "discovered" that his brain was still almost entirely active (either through a scan or this awesomely-reliable Ouija method).

    But when did he officially come out of the non-responsive coma? He obviously wasn't moving his foot "yes" or "no" for the past 23 years, right?

    Come on reporter people! GIVE ME CONTEXT!
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    Odin promoted this comment comrade_leviathan was starred comrade_leviathan was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    11/25/09

    @comrade_leviathan:
    I don't know much about comas but I assume that in some cases there's some minor movement. The movement of his foot is probably only very slight so it likely never raised any red flags when he was in the "coma".
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    11/25/09

    @Odin: So the whole time he was saying "yes" or "no" and no one knew which one meant what?

    How frustrating. I'm doubting the foot movement even happened until after he had come out of the coma and they'd developed a means for him to communicate.
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