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more about #surgery Xodin: Wouldn't tape with other peoples prints be easier? more » kiwizz: Weird because they took prints from both of my hands when I was checked. more » ripfire: That's nothing compared to the eye surgery Tom Cruise went through.. more » Poiklpu: Minority report came to mind whilst reading this story... more » The5thElephant: UP UP LEFT DOWN A X A X B R-button for God Mode! #thiscyborglife more » Software_Goddess: How cool would it be to see a baby in your womb with this software? #thiscyborglife more » Slyd3z: BOOM! Lymph node shot! #thiscyborglife more » Gordonium: The University of California at Santa Barbara has a sort of 3D-projection version of this, called the AlloSphere. Its director, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, g... more » The Lab: Ages ago I used to play a fairly realistic surgery game on the PC, loved it even though I had lost the manual and learned by trial and error (can't do... more » Curves: I am reminded of my favorite old board game "Operation". #thiscyborglife more » minibeardeath: i did not realize that the XPS laptops had that god awful logo on the trackpad. goog god its ugly! #thiscyborglife more » Kaiser-Machead: Eh, this looks ok. I think I'll wait for Otolaryngology Hero. more » anexanhume: So that's where that marble went! #thiscyborglife more » madog: Inflation and the ever rising cost of healthcare. "Ohhhh, dismemberment. Yeah, I'm afraid that surgery costs an arm and a leg, and you look a little.... more » Geisrud: Sheesh...$26million! That's like $6 million in 1974 dollars. #thiscyborglife more » Digo: Too bad I didn't see this article back in May 2008. I would have short-sold the crap out of the 6 million dollar man. #thiscyborglife more » Curves: We can rebuild him for a lot less if we get that Chinese guy to build him out of spare parts laying around his house. To all the Veterans who read Gi... more » Slack3r78: [www.wolframalpha.com] So, $6M/.23 = just shy of $26.1M today. Wolfram Alpha says that a dollar in 2008 would be worth $1.02 today, so the value of ... more » Hachiken: Hannibal Lecter laughs at our new robot overlords and says "Pass me the gyoza sauce!" #virtualautopsyrobot more » OMG! Ponies!: I swear, Rosa, you're really starting to piss me off with your writing. Why the hell would I want a lightsaber? That's what I hate about you right-w... more » -
#crime
Chinese Woman Fools Scanners By Surgically Switching Her Fingerprints
Unfortunately for Lin Ring, her $14,600 surgical fingerprint switching procedure was able to fool the scanners, but could not prevent immigration officials from noticing the scars on her fingers. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced to an Xbox Game
3D medical imagery has always been fascinating to me: generating 3D models from film footage is still a fledgling tech, while medical professionals render guts on a daily basis. And sometimes, apparently, connected to Xbox controllers. More » -
#thiscyborglife
The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today? More » -
#robots
With Robot-Performed Virtual Autopsies, Your Corpse Gets a Stunt Double
Virtual autopsies (yes, "virtopsies") are the newest in cause-of-death forensics. Robots surround a body, creating 3D imagery inside and out. When ready, the real body rests in peace while the stunt corpse gets chopped apart. Goodbye, CSI-induced nightmares! More » -
#lightsabers
Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery
Apparently plasma knives, surgical instruments which have glowing, ionized gas as a blade, have passed Special Operations Command's field testing and evaluation stages. Great! Now how much longer until this tech can be used to make real lightsabers? More » -
#cancer
Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger
When surgeons dig around inside of you trying to cut out a tumor, they're actually going off of pre-op info to find the tumor. An electroscalpel, combined with a mass spectrometer, will let them map cancerous cells in realtime. More » -
#vision
Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
LASIK's been around a while, and somehow it was only a matter of time before designer vision, corneas custom-tailored to lifestyle and career, started to turn common. Could laser eye surgery become the new graduation boob job? More » -
#surgery
New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!
It's the ultimate home theater system that you'll (hopefully) never be conscious to see. More » -
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#pewpew
Stitching Wounds Using Lasers
We know lasers cut things, but now they're being used to stitch things up too? Doctors at Tel Aviv University have figured out a way to weld skin shut by meticulously control a laser's heat.
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#science
Proteus Motor Swims Through Bloodstream, Looks Pretty Much Like a Sperm
The tiny Proteus motor, at only 2.5 times the width of a human hair, is small enough to enter the bloodstream and perform duties previously requiring some surgical slice-and-dice. More » -
#prosthesis
Bomb Victim Fitted With Cyborg Arm That Fuses With Her Own Skin and Bone
Kira Mason, a victim of the London bombing attacks in July of 2005 has been fitted with a cyborg arm that fuses with her own skin and bone. The procedure has been called "a breakthrough." More » -
#youareclearlynotadoctor
Stable, Sane Young Man Installs DIY RFID Implant into His Hand
Some people are sick of waiting for the RFID implant controversy to play out, and at least one of those people is taking action. YouTube user Quethe has posted a video demonstrating his own RFID implantation technique, involving a terrifying pencil-size needle and a chip designed for pets, which he is using for a predictably unnerving purpose. Also — and Quethe makes this quite clear — this implant does not mean that he is the Antichrist. Phew! Mildly NSFW video and generally unhinged Millenialist ruminations after the jump. More »
