Comments on: Bionic Lab https://blog.speculist.com/bionics/bionic-lab.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/bionics/bionic-lab.html#comment-8619 Stephen Gordon Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:36:38 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=268#comment-8619 With defibrillators getting so common that people are buying them for the home, I wonder if there will come a time when we might all want implanted defibrillators.

If the installation is safe and they consistently save lives, maybe so. Especially if the same device could do other helpful things.

As the risks and complications associated with cardioverter defibrillators are reduced, they will be prescribed in more and more cases:

“Mr. Gordon, you are now 45. Time to install a defibrillator.”

Unrelated thought: it wouldn’t be necessary for all the computer processing for an internal biolab to be done inside the body. If the device served as a mass spectrometer it could export the data to a computer outside the body. That computer could run Correlogic’s software to find potential problems.

]]> By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/bionics/bionic-lab.html#comment-8618 Phil Bowermaster Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:01:21 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=268#comment-8618 Yes, but unlike the defibrillator, we’re going to want to put one of these in everybody.

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