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- richardiscool, on 11/29/2007, -0/+18Great until there's a skin jam.
- benchwarmer, on 11/29/2007, -0/+16"Yeah man, I got patched to Human 3.134 last Saturday... for the most part it was just a bunch of virus definition updates."
- noahhoward, on 11/29/2007, -1/+12Please oh please oh please oh please... I'll take a boot to the chest and barely flinch but I ***** hate needles. Get these into meps before I decide to go to OCS please.
- DubbleA, on 11/29/2007, -1/+11Wow, I would have never thought that the same delivery system used in printers could also deliver medication. Great thinking on HP's part! Here is their press release (it is linked in the article, but I will post it here just in case the site goes down)
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/07091 ...
Now, would these patches be reusable? If so, that could save a lot of money on medicine that would have to be taken often (through something like a regular injection). - fixty, on 11/29/2007, -0/+9"Wow, I would have never thought that the same delivery system used in printers could also deliver medication."
Earlier today I was wondering if inkjet technology could somehow be tweaked to allow for more precise and less painful/time consuming tattooing. This stuff HP's cooking up might be a step in that direction... - etsa, on 11/29/2007, -1/+9the star trek hypospray won't come true?! oh of all humanity..
but seriously this is way cool and should be implemented as soon as possible.
there muct be a warning sign saying "When to remove", otherwise some people might get patch all over. - LeeSoong, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4ah, any risk of infection with 10,000 micro-needle holes in your arm ?
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4And does it work with heroin?
- Kr4t05, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4Insulin patches for diabetics? We already have these "pain-free" meters and such. Sounds like a win for doctors and patients alike.
(I'm not diabetic, but this is one of the things that comes to mind.) - MasterThief117, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3How about caffeine using this method? I could digg all night long.
- coredump0x01, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3I always liked that idea, but what would happen if it jammed? :s
- GCarden, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3I'm starting to get tired of hearing about the various needle-less technologies and then never actually having my doctor employ them when I need to get injected. :(
- fishrjv, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2"The manufacturers must demonstrate that the patch's very gentle yet dense piercing of the skin doesn't enable bacteria and viruses to penetrate the skin and cause infections."
I would consider it more of a health risk than a cost issue. You can't be too careful on the issue of reusing a medical device. - expert01, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2or if it went crazy?
- potterboy, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/caffederm.shtml
- nordberg, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2Geeze, HP comes up with something, and already you want to refill the cartridge. Oh well...
- tschau, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2yeah, but if you wanted to be "authentic" you'd still always have to have a real tattoo artist do it anyway.
- RocketGib, on 11/29/2007, -1/+2I wonder if the drivers are compatible with HumanOS? If not, we should be braced for a sudden surge of "BSOD" syndrome.
- keiterk, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1This is interesting, but I remember reading that some company had done this... and that was probably around seven years ago in Popular Science. The problem with medical technology is that it often takes a long time to actually penetrate the market. A vast amount of medical technology is thrown by the wayside for older technology and techniques that simply win because they are time-tested and proven.
- BOFH2, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1great idea for some people. I had a patch med that caused more pain from the adhesive then the actual problem.
- Iddo, on 11/29/2007, -1/+2I don't think they will be reusable - maybe part of the micro injector will - its a cost issue basically...
- rarson, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Ha ha ha, boot camp was like human dart boards with all the shots they gave us.
They always train corpsmen at training commands. So the people giving you the shots are still practicing. - inactive, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I'm going for my life saving insulin patch and there's a flashing text & I'm like what the ***** is PC LOAD LETTER?? shyeah
- jubilee123, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Harry Potter skin patch
- noahhoward, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Congrats, you enlisting or going to OCS? Any idea what you're going to do or what training command they are sending you to?
- madamme, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Wow that's awesome. Especially since nurses can never find my veins. Every time I have to get an IV I always end up with at least 3 huge bruises from failed attempts. This will be fantastic for people like me.
- navitatl, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I just went to MEPS on monday. They don't give you any shots there, they just draw some blood. The real pain comes at boot camp.... just another reason to be terrified of going (jan. 21st, USCG for me!)
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Ten years of three shots weekly to control my allergies. I'm pretty immune to the needle, fact is I actually need to watch them insert it.
Now that ***** hooked thing the dentist goes pokin round my teeth with......... - navitatl, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Enlisting. No clue about the rest. I want to have an environmentally-focused job, that's all I know.
- frostedflakes, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Heroin
- MasterThief117, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1A bit pricey, don't you think?
- expert01, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Think you mean "as bad" as their printers
- Smight, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Load US letter size paper into your printer cartridge.
- ReligionOfPeace, on 11/29/2007, -1/+1How very cool. Patch-delivered drugs are a recurrent device in many science fiction universes. There's excellent potential here for emergency medicine delivery. The simplicity of the system could allow people who need daily injections and are unable to manage their own syringe to administer their medications. Arthritis is hell for many people who need medicine. Even a poptop can be hard sometimes.
Let's not forget the huge potential for recreational drugs! Once the government is replaced by something approaching rationality, the prohibition will cease.
Vote Revolution in 2008! - diggdugg97, on 11/29/2007, -0/+0Fentanyl is already in patch form and has been for years, and is much much stronger than heroin.
- diggdugg97, on 11/29/2007, -0/+0This would be awesome to have but if it's anything like the Fentanyl (Duragesic) narcotic patches, there are soo many factors that determine absorption (body heat, location it's put on the body, etc) it's going to be really hard to make something that is definitely safe. Although my pain relief patches are pretty reliable I know this is a completely different thing than what is mentioned here so all of those exact things may be able to be determined with certainty somehow.
- darkecho, on 11/29/2007, -3/+2Hrm.. hope there isn't as many hardware failure problems like with their laptops.
- shotgunefx, on 11/29/2007, -3/+1Eh.. I'm not saying it won't have uses, but it seems to have a lot of potential problems and limitations.
Infections aside, cost is a big one. How would you verify what chips contained what? Seems like it would have to be done at a special facility, so I imagine the turn around time won't be great. I can't really see this being that generic, maybe for certain ailments, like diabetes they could produce certain mixes of insulin in large quantities to get around the turn around time.
There are definitely some liability concerns as well. What happens if one goes wonky? Maybe they are wearing nylon and walking on carpeting and the chip gets zapped. If someone got days worth of insulin at once, that would be bad or even a quality control issue with the wrong drug being loaded in. Yes, that can happen with other drugs, but normally, as I understand it, you are not mixing and matching various combinations of drugs in one container. I imagine those mistakes happen at line changes, if you are changing the "line" all the time, seem like it's much more likely to happen. - startbas, on 11/29/2007, -2/+0WOW, very nice!
- brwright, on 11/29/2007, -6/+3HP as in Hewlett Packard? Let's hope these don't function as well as their printers.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -7/+1waoooooo Gr8 :)
