Organs

April 8th 2008

More Opera, More Repo Men, and More Guts

The website for Repo The Genetic Opera has gone live, which means we must be closer than ever to seeing this film in theaters instead of in dribs and drabs on the interwebs. I’ve been excited about this movie for a while, partly because it stars Buffy’s Anthony Stewart Head as a freakish organ repo-man…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 8

February 14th 2008

How Many of Your Internal Organs Can You Live Without?

Organ failure is one of those annoying problems many of us face — often sooner than we want to. The good news is that there are a lot of organs you can live without. You probably already know, for example, that your appendix and tonsils can be removed entirely without any harm done. But there…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 14

February 4th 2008

A Better Debugger for the Software That Runs Your Cybernetic Heart

Semi-permanent heart pumps like this one are installed in people’s hearts all over the world. The problem is that when these software-controlled pumps fail, the blue screen of death is literally killing people. So researchers at Frunhofer-Gesellsschaft Research, who make a popular model of heart pump (or VAD, for ventricular assist device), have invented this…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 4

December 19th 2007

You Can Live Without Heart Valves and Kidneys

Two new artificial organs rolled out in the past week are going to make things a hell of a lot easier for people with malfunctioning (or absent) heart valves and kidneys. The first device (pictured) is an artificial heart valve that can replace the part of your heart that pushes blood through your body. Being…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 19

November 19th 2007

Body Organs Get Yanked In Clash Of Repo Movies

In the future, you’ll be able to pay for new organs on credit, just like decorating your home. But what happens when you can’t payoff the new body parts you’ve been enjoying? That’s the premise of not one but two new films coming out next year. And one of them is a musical. Only in…

io9 Kevin Kelly Nov 19

June 8th 2006

Heart-Shaped Box

No time for a sit-down lunch? The Organ Care System let’s you take your viable human hearts, kidneys, or livers anywhere, allowing you to enjoy the taste of fresh meat anywhere—in the park, after your workout, or in Deepwater Cave down by the old sawmill on the edge of town. The Organ Care System keeps…

Gadgets John Biggs Jun 8

April 14th 2006

Print New Organs With Bioink

Our donut and fizzy sugar water consumption aside, we’re working hard on keeping our arteries from clogging these days, but we must admit to being somewhat more reassured about our prospects of longevity whenever we read stories about tissue engineering like this: Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described his…

Health Gizmodo.com Apr 14

March 16th 2006

Organ Transportation Gets an Upgrade

The days of television medical dramas consisting of transporting organs in a ratty cooler filled with ice are no more. The TransMedics Organ Care System is the latest and greatest technology used to preserve organs while being transferred to a new body. It works by pumping warm, oxygenated, nutrient rich blood throughout the organ while…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Mar 16

August 12th 2005

MIDI-Controlled Beer Bottle Organs

No, it s not you: those 99 bottles of beer on the wall really are singing. The idea of a beer bottle organ was born some time in the 1800s; I m guessing those who were there didn t recall the details too clearly, because you naturally have to drink the beer before the bottles…

Gadgets Johnb Aug 12

More Opera, More Repo Men, and More Guts

How Many of Your Internal Organs Can You Live Without?

A Better Debugger for the Software That Runs Your Cybernetic Heart

You Can Live Without Heart Valves and Kidneys

Body Organs Get Yanked In Clash Of Repo Movies

Heart-Shaped Box

Print New Organs With Bioink

Organ Transportation Gets an Upgrade

MIDI-Controlled Beer Bottle Organs

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