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Anonymous Coward writes "Bringing us one step closer to becoming centrally-controlled meatbots, Japanese scientists have developed a device that produces power from the glucose in human blood. Theoretically, this technology (aka "Dracucell") could produce 100W of power. Of course, it can't produce that much power in practice since your body stupidly wastes glucose in maintaining homeostasis. The scientists propose that this devices could be used to power implanted devices. Now how many of you Slashdotters would it take to power my laptop? I'll buy the cola!"
Some Interesting New Products... (Score:5, Funny)
Overclock Your Body NOW! Drink UBER-BLOOD(TM) XP!!
fp btw.
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't count the times when she's passed out from too much or too little sugar in her blood. I can't even count the number of times she's told me how she's laid back in bed having a reaction, not doing anything about it because she just wants the nightmare over with. Luckily, she has a family that cares too enough for her to not let her do that. A device that would efficiently control the glucose levels, without daily and usually unreliable amounts of insuline injections, would be a godsend for her. Diabetes isn't just some disease that you can live with and not worry. For people with the disease, it literally is a daily struggle. They find ways to live with it, but they can't lead a normal life. She has blood clots in her eyes from the sugar build up. Wounds take about twice as long to heal on her. She's lost teeth because they are rotting from the inside. She's been told by doctors that she will be lucky to make it to 50. A lot of people think that "oh you just need to take a shot every once in a while. What's so bad about that?" Unless you have the disease, or know someone who does, you can never really know the horrors it brings.
Forget human batteries. Lets start focusing on real life-saving applications.
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:2)
more efficient to make ethanol out of that lovely sugar.
But this is neat for running implants and no mistake.
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:5, Funny)
Why not just add a second extractor to get energy straight out of the ethanol already in your bloodstream?
What's that you say? No ethanol in your bloodstream? Well, put some in already!
What's that you say again? You drank three shots of Scotland's finest single malt, and you're not drunk because the extractor's drawing all that ethanol to power your laptop? Just keep drinking!
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:4, Funny)
I love puns.
Other uses (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Other uses (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Other uses (Score:4, Funny)
Almost right... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Other uses (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Some Interesting New Products... (Score:5, Funny)
Forget that, man. Do you realize this means I can eat ALL the potato salad I can fit in my stomach. And potato chips and popcorn and pretty much anything starchy. For those of us walking dangerously close to the diabetes line this thing could be great! I could power my laptop AND lose weight at the same time. I can just see the Infomercials now. Of course, we'll need Dan Akroyd to do the voiceover....
Two cows (Score:5, Funny)
Two cows [lotsofjokes.com]:
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowikimon and market them worldwide.
Re:Two cows (Score:5, Funny)
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the band, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.
Re:Two cows (Score:5, Interesting)
With cows or other large animals, larger devices with more power would be possible. Perhaps a device to summon the cows for round up, or give them a shock if they stray out of bounds.
I am a Statistician. One false move and you are a Statistic
Riding the bus gets more dangerous... (Score:5, Funny)
"'Cause I'm as freeee aaaaasssssss aaaaaaaaaa biiiiiiirrrrrrrrr nnnnnn." -Klick!
Callously, he eyeballs the passanger next to him. He thinks, "Kinda short, but chubby... About 11 Pints."
Re:Riding the bus gets more dangerous... (Score:2, Funny)
The Matrix (Score:2, Funny)
Glucose = sugar! (Score:4, Insightful)
This of course brings back bad memories of Biology and the "Citric acid Cycle" and ATP..
Re:Glucose = sugar! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Glucose = sugar! (Score:3, Interesting)
But current implants are designed to last a couple of years on the provided batteries. So they can't use very much power.
My 1980 watch used 0.35 microwatts. The battery lasted around a year. I expect implants to use around that level of power (0.5 to 2 times the power, with a 1x to 4x larger battery).... So if the device can be made to provide around that level of power, an implant might not require the opera
Re:Glucose = sugar! (Score:5, Informative)
Probably not. Your body doesn't burn fructose specifically, it converts it to glucose first. Sucrose is a fructose molecule + a glucose molecule, so it'd have to be broken apart and the fructose converted. Your body does this all automatically, but then the point is moot, since it can (technically) run off starch as well, starch just being a polysacharide of glucose.
So in your body = okay, dumping the nanomachines into a vat of fructose wouldn't work.
Re:Glucose = sugar! (Score:3, Interesting)
Rusty Glucose (Score:5, Insightful)
IANAB (I am not a biologist), but if the process our bodies use is different from how this devices creates electricity, isn't there a different waste product? Or can our bodies still use rusty glucose? Or is oxidized glucose harmless waste?
I guess we just need to combine this technology with a form of fusion, and we're really in for it. Now drink your power aid.
Mirror [martin-studio.com]
Re:Rusty Glucose (Score:5, Interesting)
Basically, in this process Glucose + ATP is broken down into glucose-6-phosphate + ADP, giving off a net reaction of energy.
Without knowing the the reactions in the process that Dr. Eda et. al. have developed, I can only guess that the oxidized glucose will combine with the some other ions (such as a phosphate) and become waste products just liek any other in the body. I'm not really sure what happens to the glucose-6-phosphatea after Glycolysis.
Re:Rusty Glucose (Score:3, Funny)
You can buy it in concentrated powder form at your local garden store, or apply it to your plants directly.
KFG
Re:Rusty Glucose (Score:5, Informative)
Glucose + 2 ADP + 2 NAD+ + 2 Pi -----> 2 Pyruvate + 2 ATP + 2 NADH + 2 H+
Most of the bodies energy is generated by the Krebs ( Citric Acid ) cycle in the mitochondria which generates much more ATP. The glucose-6-phosphate gets converted to pyruvate and enters the krebs cycle. show here [ucsd.edu] This give a net gain of 30 moles atp per 2 moles of pyruvate.
Incidently if you have sugar by products in your urine you should see your doc as you might have diabetes.
Re:Rusty Glucose (Score:2, Funny)
Oh great, so will I need to clean up computer poop all over the house now?
Re:Rusty Glucose - Good Question... (Score:2)
Of course, a possible application could be using to power RF tags for endangered species - of course if there is an issue on the toxicity of th
Re:Rusty Glucose (Score:5, Informative)
The process the researchers have come up with probably uses the same effect to produce a current. The waste product? Urine. The same thing you'd produce if you metabolized the glucose yourself.
How about the opposite? (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if this research can lead into the electricity in -> ATP/Glucose out.
People powering PDAs with a little blood or spit is cute, people running on electricity no farms, no food, no obesity, etc would be revolutionary.
Re:Rusty Glucose (Score:5, Funny)
2 C2H6O6 + O2 -> 4CO2 + 6H2O
That CO2 could suffocate you, and H2O is harmful by inhalation and is found in all known cancers!
In other news.... (Score:3, Funny)
ducks
some interesting applications (Score:5, Funny)
Re:some interesting applications (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:some interesting applications (Score:5, Funny)
Newest diet fad? (Score:5, Interesting)
This way people will get an increased metabolism (since some of your sugars are being converted into energy for non-local entities), and they will be able to reduce the number of batteries and other power sources needed.
Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls. That would be the killer app.
No no no! (Score:2, Funny)
This is definitely not an area where anyone would want a killer app!
Well, now that I think about it, just not for oneself... >:]
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If I can own an idea, does that mean I can legally claim some portion of your soul once I tell you that idea? Or even if you just come up with it on your own? Heck, who needs contracts in blood... (except the nanobots now)
Re:Newest diet fad? (Score:4, Interesting)
This way people will get an increased metabolism (since some of your sugars are being converted into energy for non-local entities), and they will be able to reduce the number of batteries and other power sources needed.
Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls. That would be the killer app.
This could be both a good thing and a bad thing. Firstly it will obviously save lives due to the pure fact of weight loss but will it replace exercise? I've done a lot of running this summer, partially it was to lose about 15 pounds I put on over classes. Now even with those extra 15 pounds I was not what anybody would classify as fat but I was out of shape and found the extra weight was slowing me down. Either way I haven't lost all that extra weight but I don't really care as I have really improved my conditioning (though not to the level of the previous summer when I did a fair amount of running as well). Either way my concern is that this will take away these peoples major stimulus for exercise by making them feel healthy with their smaller cross-section when they are in just as bad shape as before except for a reduced risk of heart disease and maybe fewer joint problems. Also if you consider anorexics(sp?!?) already what will happen when they can do it much more easily and conveniently with one of these devices/technologies I can see this as a huge problem when people run their bodies energy supplies into the ground with the touch of a dial in the pursuit of a pencil thin waist and end up starving to death while on a seemingly healthy diet.
stupid body (Score:5, Funny)
My homo-status is NONE of your business.
Has potential (Score:2, Funny)
Kinda also revives the coppertop thingy from the matrix though...
What they really need is an implant that looks like a wall outlet so I can plug my discman into it
Tom
Interesting (Score:2)
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
I want the opposite (Score:5, Funny)
Hey you Porky! (Score:5, Funny)
Serious ramifications (Score:2)
I, for one, welcome our new blood-sucking masters.
I want this!!! (Score:2)
Being able to make my own power in times of trouble would be priceless.
(Especially considering how often the power can suddenly go out where I live.)
Re:I want this!!! (Score:2)
Re:I want this!!! (Score:2)
No one said any of these prices are for Coke or Pepsi products, mind you.
25 cents (Score:2)
Vampire robot slaves! (Score:2)
(Voice of Davy)
I'm starting to get scared because these
robots are aware
that I'm running out of food, blood's
a bubbling crude
I'm hoping in the next town there will be
blood to be found
If I don't keep them pleased they'll be
feeding off me
(voic
Matrix (Score:2)
Actual application... (Score:5, Interesting)
It involves surgery. YIKES! Granted, it is probably minor surgery compared to getting the thing put in there to begin with, but knowing it was powered by your own blood would surely be a welcome change to these folks.
I mean if you think replacing the battery on your motherboard is a pain, think of doing it on an outpatient basis.
Pacemaker Recharge by Induction (Score:2)
Pacemakers are now recharged by induction, without surgery
Re:Pacemaker Recharge by Induction (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't think so. A relative of mine has just had a pacemaker fitted, and replacement of the device is required every time the Li battery goes flat. You couldn't use induction to charge a pacemaker, because the electronics don't react well to strong magnetic fields, which is a problem if those same electronics have the job of making sure your heart beats at the correct rate (or at all).
Induction is, however, used to communicate with and program the device, since the fields are weak enough not to cause a pr
Re:Pacemaker Recharge by Induction (Score:4, Interesting)
But that's not how it's actually done: the battery and electronics forrm a single unit, with the only leads being the ones connecting the pacemaker to the heart itself. I'm not medically trained, but I guess there'd be two reasons for this. Firstly, there's not a lot of room in the body for lots of components spaced out all over the place, and not many convenient sites to put things; case-modding to give yourself more room is not an option. Currently, pacemakers are installed under a local anaesthetic through a small incision in the chest; your solution would likely require a more difficult procedure
Secondly, there's always the risk that the pacemaker leads could be dislodged through even normal body movement: patients are instructed not to engage in certain activities (not lifting their arm on the pacemaker's side of the body above the chest, just to name one). Having another wire connecting a string of components just compounds that problem.
Ahhh, Gordon! (Score:5, Funny)
Pacemakers (Score:3, Interesting)
First one to make a Matrix referrence... (Score:2, Interesting)
Thank you for your attention, carry on minions!
power my laptop (Score:2)
Hell, I would use it just to help burn calories and loose weight.
Nanotech (Score:2)
A bold step forward for Human Case Modding (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:A bold step forward for Human Case Modding (Score:2)
One of their featured "body modders" had his twin brother's right arm grafted to his chest.
I am a (Score:2, Funny)
"Negative, I am a meat popsicle"
Re:I am a (Score:2)
Because you have already posted in this topic.
Other Uses (Score:2)
Very useful right away, let alone in the future (Score:4, Informative)
1. Have some sort of actual device sticking out of the body. This is bad, because it breaches the skin, our natural defensive screen, and such things tend to become very easily infected.
2. Surgery to replace cells. Again, any surgery at all is going to be both expensive and risk prone.
More recently, a third option has become available: having fully implanted power system that can be recharged wirelessly, via em radiation of some kind (you can google for it). This is a big gain, because it allows devices that are more power hungry while still maintaining the benefits of not breaching the skin and not needing frequent operations. But it still requires people to remember and have access to the appropriate charging device consistantly. If for any reason some one forgets or can't recharge, the device may shut down, sometimes with fatal results. So having a way to remove one more step for powering these things should really help improve the quality of life for a lot of people today.
Of course, personally I find this to be a very exciting development for future things as well. When we get to the point of having more optional implants, for things like boosting hearing or vision, a way to power them will be necessary, and if the power requirements are low, then this system would be perfect. Ultimately, widespread adoption of anything, from an OS to a vehicle, is all about making it as easy and intuitive for end users as possible. There is a lot of interesting stuff going on for advanced things like brain-computer interfaces, and people who are interested should look around, as the state of the art has advanced a great deal in the past 5 years. Here are a few links for the curious, and much more can be found with google, of course:
Graz University of Technology [tu-graz.ac.at]
Standford/DVA Neural Interface Project [stanford.edu]
Beyond the Big Barrier(lighter, intro type stuff) [man.ac.uk]
News Group:
sci.med.psychobiology [sci.med.psychobiology]
Another interesting BCI link (Score:3, Informative)
lighting! (Score:2, Funny)
Homeostasis (Score:4, Insightful)
They have NOT 'developed' this device (Score:2, Interesting)
Scientists at Matsushita [mew.co.jp]'s Nanotechnology Research Laboratory in Japan are developing a power generator that uses blood to produce electricity [smh.com.au]. It emulates the process the body uses to convert food into energy. The scientists say the "bio-nano" generator could be used to run devices embedded in the body, or sugar-fed robots. Dr. Kazuo
This was done long ago (Score:4, Funny)
Stop following me! (Score:5, Funny)
Too many I suspect until geek hygiene improves dramatically.
Obvious jokes aside... (Score:2, Funny)
If they can figure out a way to get a reasonable amount of power without adversely effecting your health, this could be most excellent. I don't think we'll be powering our laptops and cell phones with this, (although a cell phone doesn't suck that much power) but for powering a pacemaker, as someone else suggested, this would be quite useful.
Also of use would be powering the so-called "Soldier of the Future". If our military is
sounds like a good excuse (Score:2)
Damn you, homeostasis!!! (Score:3, Informative)
2000 calories/day - watts. (Score:5, Insightful)
In other words, on a 2000 kilocalories/day diet...
1 kilowatthour = 860 kilocalories.
2000/860 = 2.3 kilowatt hours
2300 watts-hours/24hours = 96 watts.
Pretty amazing that we humans only run on 96 watts of power.
No go without elaborate glucose level controls. (Score:2)
why the premise of the Matrix is so dumb (Score:5, Funny)
Chickens and rabbits do much better. But then, what kind of a movie would it be if Keanu Reeves was trying to free acres and acres of penned hens? I know, it's about his speed. He'd probably get an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Er, as I was saying, the human body is not a very efficient producer of energy, and the amount of fossil fuels used to produce our food is staggering.
What would be more useful, in terms of the worlds energy demands, is if these guys could *reverse* the process... By putting energy IN to the metabolism, synthesise glucose from H20 and C02. Ideally, the energy source would be good old solar insolation on exposed skin.
So, lay around in the backyard naked for a few hours and save the money you would have had to spend on doughnuts.
This isn't too incredibly speculative, plenty of organisms do this already. The downside is, you'd probably be green, but if everyone was green, it wouldn't be so bad.
Idea for a better plot device (Score:3, Interesting)
Dieting? (Score:2)
Or, for those of us that are more concerned with being weak & a bit chubby (rather than dangerously obese), they could build muscle tissue (easiest way I'
How many (Score:4, Funny)
How many airplane pilots does it take to power a laptop?
None. The use of laptops and other portable electronic devices is strictly prohibited during take-off and landing, acording to FAA regulations.
How many MIT students does it take to power a laptop?
Ten. One to blood power it while the others project a more efficient system.
How many Peta members does it take to power a laptop?
Two. One to power it and another to make sure they're not using the blood of any animal.
How many quantum mechanicians does it take to power a laptop ?
They can't. If they know where the power cord is, they cannot locate the plug. (BTW, where in the body would a power plug fit?)
How many Heisenbergs does it take to power a laptop?
If you know the number, you don't know where the laptop is.
How many women does it take to power a laptop?
No way. It's a man's job.
How many amish people does it take to power a laptop?
None. Amish people don't believe in Laptops.
How many Sysadmins does it take to power a laptop?
I'm sorry, that's a hardware issue and we can't help you with it. You'll have to get a hardware tech to power it. Good luck.
Check out the title bar... (Score:3, Funny)
'Nuff said.
Good for low power devices (Score:3, Informative)
Most importantly, the whole laptop thing is a joke, this is not intended to power a laptop people. If used inside the human body, this would be to power nanomachiens (almost no power drain) and medical implants (which don't draw huge amounts of power either).
I don't think so. (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry dude, but I need my palms while watching movies. Ok, I can sacrifice one palm. nevermind.
The power cell itself just cured diabetes and more (Score:3, Interesting)
This is the cure for diabetes(sp?) as its an insulin replacement. It can keep the bloodstream below a certain glucose level with the greatest of ease, just burning off power doing something dumb (or useful, it doesn't matter). Just implant a device or series of devices that detect gluecose levels, and the device(s) stays idle or working in a low power mode until levels reach a certain level, then they burn off that excess gluecose until the blood is reduced to an optimal level. This is probably controlled by a slightly more complicated algorithm, but this should get the idea out.
It also is a GREAT and I do mean GREAT wieght loss aid. It can use up excess energy that the body takes in sending the body into ketosis, thereby getting the Atkins type diet, while eating whatever you want. There is also studies that show if you eat at "starvation" levels your whole life (when ketosis should be happening rather constantly) you increase your lifespan by 20% or more. Therefore, this is also an anti-aging device while being a near perfect diet.
The diet application does not require going into ketosis. It could just use much of the gluecose, thereby making it as if the person ate a smaller meal.
Should use more than glucose (Score:3, Interesting)
This should be improved to use fats and lactose etc from the blood as well. I dont mind driving a small car powered by myself which is powered by Burger King. You get to eat all you can and you get to lose weight while speeding. I think I'll start a trucking company.
Re:The Matrix is just a movie (Score:2, Insightful)
Is creativity nothing more then a very basic function of an advanced brain? If we can develop such analytical adept brains, why can't another organism given time? Why can't we create one?
Even certain birds can solve puzzles using techniques that researchers never included in the equation. N
Re:The Matrix is just a movie (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, the specific application being developed was designing an FPGA circuit to detect whether or not a tone (of a specific frequency) was being played. Genetic algorithms were being used to "evolve" circuit designs on a computer, then upload them to the FPGA.
It ended up being the case that the final design used far less gates than any human could reasonably design. And, none of the human EE's could understand how it was done at first.
After analysis, it was shown that the evolved design was using subtle interplay between different parts, and that analog effects from gates next to each other were affecting the results, etc... - all things that an engineer would not consider. (In fact, not even a good thing to consider because it wouldn't work on other FPGAs, even of the same model number, because of the subtleties of the analog interaction).
But, the point is that the problem was solved by a computer program, in a much more efficient (and certainly, "creative" and "outside the box") way than humans would.
Also, note that the humans couldn't understand at first (and took quite some time to understand) a relatively uncomplex system (a few handfuls of logic gates)...
If we assemble systems with orders of magnitude more complexity (millions of gates), operating in similiar ways, there is no way a human will understand it. At this point, it will "come up with" solutions to problems, and there will be no way for a human to understand how it is coming up with these.
At that point, how could you argue that the systems (computer vs human mind) were different, or that one were better than the other, if they were each solving obscure problems, and we didn't understand either?
Evolving Invention (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The Matrix is just a movie (Score:3, Interesting)
To back up your argument, you should probably know what the soul is and how it interacts with the physical brain, otherwise how can you say it's not a behavior of the brain?
Re:The Matrix is just a movie (Score:4, Insightful)
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you plan to simulate the human brain, make sure you simulate the IO in a manner the simulation can access naturally. Nothing would suck more than being a fully functional simulation trapped in a deaf and dumb computer system.
"I think, therefore I am" doesn't mean much if nobody else knows...
Human Arrogance (wasRe:The Matrix is just a movie) (Score:5, Informative)
When you talk about intelligence, you are really refering to _human_ intellegence.
Do you not understand that what is considered to be intelligent behaviour is relative to your environment.
Do you understard that it would be very stupid for
- a cow in its native environment to behave as if its a hippopotamus.
- a human in its native environment to behave as if it were a bird.
- a computer in its native environment to behave as if it were a human.
Why would a computer think like a human, its not a human. It doesnt have a human body, or a human mind, neither does a cow, a bird or a monkey, but it doesnt mean they dont possess intellegence.
We shouldnt be so arrogant to only percieve inteligence as behaviour that mimicks ours.
If we fully understood the human brain, if we could predict behaviour based on the brains current knowledge and its environmental stimulus then would you still consider humans to be inteligent ?
Any technology sufficiently advanced appears like magic, thats what our brain is.
Just because we are masters of our computers doesnt mean computers are incapable of intellegence.
Just because we dont understand our brain doesnt mean it has a magic quality, a soul.
Re:The Matrix is just a movie (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Matrix is just a movie (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, but both of these simulations work using patterns that were derived by analysis of existing works, which by definition always happens after the real creation already took place. Therefore nothing the machines produce is remotely original, they were just programmed to produce something similar by humans, who used their real intelligence to identify patterns that could be codified into a form a machine could understand. People do this too, imitating musical styles of past composers, for example. So in this way machines can be made to be sort of like people, producing new outputs from a fixed set of inputs, creating examples of rules.
The real problem arises in simulating truly creative human activities - for example the creation of an entirely new method of composing music that did not previously exist. Maybe it is an extension of something that existed before, or a synthesis of disparate elements. How do people do things like this? Much of it is based on intuition, interpreting their sensory experiences, and then creating something new. All this is difficult to define in terms of a machine. Even worse is the question, why do people do this? What motivates them? You have to simulate both the how and the why to create a truly creative entity. The machine must be able to create new sets of rules for itself, and must do so not arbitrarily, but for a reason. Aha, you say. The ability and motivation to create new rules must be defined in a sort of meta-rule! Right, all you have to do is understand the operations of conscious thought. But there is a showstopper problem with that notion - you must understand conscious thought from within your own mind, in terms of your thoughts. I reason by analogy here, but isn't there a mathematical principle that says that many systems cannot be proved from within themselves?
Otherwise, you get 'creative' machines as they are now, clever, highly trained parrots. Nothing more.
I will proceed further from 'interesting' into 'making people angry', and inform you all that my opinion is that artificial intelligence that has the creative capacity of humans will never exist. This is because I believe humans were endowed with their creative capacity by their Creator, but not given enough analytical ability to understand their creative abilities well enough to truly replicate them. Maybe if you have the mind of God you can create the mind of a human, but how can you create the mind of God if you cannot even make the mind of a human? I guess this ties into the concept of a soul, the part of our experience that we are aware of, but unable to analyze from within our experience.
Re:Whats next? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Diabetics (Score:2)
Probably something like this. [extremeoverclocking.com]
Re:Matrix? (Score:5, Funny)
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.