Needle Free Injections With Microjets 282
IZ Reloaded writes "Do you hate needles? In the near future, the fear of needles would be a thing of a past. Bioengineering students at the University of California, Berkeley have developed the MicroJet. It uses an electronic actuator that could one day propel vaccinations, insulin or other drugs through the skin of the patient - without the device even touching the skin - with far less pain than a hypodermic needle."
Obligatory Star Trek reference... (Score:3, Funny)
Well beyond... (Score:5, Funny)
So for God's sake, ask the nurse to check the settings before she pulls the trigger.
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Celebrities use... (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone's doing it!
Heroin (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Celebrities use... (Score:2, Funny)
Awww, then you won't hear this anymore..... (Score:3, Funny)
DOCTOR: Oh so I am. It does make a lovely scraping sound though.
Cute nurse (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory Star Trek reference... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Jetgun (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Jetgun (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmmm. Seems like 1/2 of it is malfunctioning. Stay right there, I'll be right over!
Re:yeah, but will it hit my vein? (Score:2, Funny)
It's good that they can take any relatively harmless apparatus like that and make it look like it's going to hurt like a some of a gun, and like it was built by the lowest bidder.
Re:Yes, do you prefer... (Score:1, Funny)
"No!
No hypo...."
Re:AIDS (Score:3, Funny)