Smart Sutures Tie Themselves 14
edwilli writes "Scientific American has an interesting article on "smart" thermoplastic materal that can tie itself into a knot. Finally you can throw away those velcro shoes."
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
awesome (Score:1)
One word: tight as hell.
Re:Wait... (Score:2)
;)
Re:awesome (Score:2, Funny)
So they could combine that movie with "Doc Hollywood" where he wants to be a plastic surgeon in Hollywood and he can still drive a cool car, be a country doc and travel ahead in time to learn new surgical techniques and bring back new gadgets and they could call it "Back to the Suture: A Stitch in Time"
A real challenge (Score:3, Funny)
Self-tying shoes (Score:2, Insightful)
Old (Score:3, Informative)
Didn't really tie itself did it. (Score:3, Insightful)
They heat it up, it shrinks, and tightens the knot nicely.
Useful, but not exactly a self tying knot.