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- wondertwins, on 06/18/2009, -3/+14TED and Fora.tv are awesome sites for documentary.
- TEDChris, on 06/18/2009, -0/+7Mohr is an engineer turned medical researcher... great example of cross-disciplinary genius. The new surgical robot she unveils at 13:00 is seriously nifty. But as well as show-casing beautifully designed tools, the talk itself is a masterpiece of design... not least the way she uses the last 60 seconds to make it personal.
- Leminnes, on 06/18/2009, -0/+3This stuff honestly blows my mind. Remove early term cancer with some phosphorus liquid and a single hole? Done. This stuff is going to change our lives, that's for sure. But she is correct. In the end, life-threatening situations might become easier to weasel out of, but they are still essential parts of who we are as a human race.
- Lonandubh, on 06/18/2009, -2/+4buried for inaccuracy, stupidity, and continuing to give time in the social consciousness to that woman from Alaska.
- spepin, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3Pretty awesome.
It's crazy to think that people used to drill/smash holes in the sides of heads to relieve headaches. Imagine living with a massive hole in your skull? I don't even know how that could have healed. - Inceptious, on 06/19/2009, -1/+3Buried for incorrect understanding of what is an incorrect use of apostrophe
- trammell, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2I watched this on a 46" TV while eating breakfast this morning. A poor decision.
- anexanhume, on 06/18/2009, -3/+4Please just don't put windows on them...
Doctor 1: Why is "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to protect your computer" carved into the patient's leg?
Doctor 2: So that's the one I forgot to reboot! - termerjur, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1I expected more of an enthusiastic reaction from the crowd when images of the new smaller robot config were displayed. But I think people were having an X-Files flashback?...I know I was.
Somebody get Scully on the line. - transcranial, on 06/18/2009, -3/+4As an electrical engineering major and future surgeon, all I have to say is: SWEET!
- bernlin2000, on 06/18/2009, -2/+3Neat speech...surgical technology is pretty nuts.
- id21, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1This is great! I love new technologies! And I will go out and save the world too :)
- dashmon, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1The talk was very inspiring... da Vinci is definitely innovative.
but...
* did anybody else feel like this was a marketing pitch.
* i think engineers are capable of much.... much more.. mems robots.. or even nanomachines.. - 47f0, on 06/19/2009, -1/+2Nice try oo7, but the same argument could be made for x-ray, its cousins fluoroscopy, CTScan, and MRIs. All of them started off being expensive and inaccessible.
And I'll tell you something the robots do give you - you can remotely place a world-class surgeon working from his office in Atlanta, directly into the O/R in Saskatchewan, and two hours later he can be working on a patient in New Mexico.
I agree that we have major health problems that are so basic, like hunger and dirty water, that we know how to correct - but don't downplay the value of technology - it always, always becomes cheaper and more pervasive. - Depthfunction, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2You're buried for lack of capitalization in your sentence.
- sexLethal, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1I've seen a training model of the da Vinci surgical robot, and it is unreal. The surgeon in charge of the training lab mentioned the implications for robot-assisted surgery means a skilled surgeon's hands can be brought to the battlefield front remotely to perform delicate vascular reconstructive procedures.
However, training the hands to operate without tactile feedback is tricky, and training the mind to dissociate motor commands from the movement of the hands is even more difficult. The mind needs to associate motile commands to the movement of the robotic forceps on the monitor--a psychological dissociation commonly practiced in video games. Resident Evil 4 was brought up as good practice to train the mind on this skill. - oo7evan, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1The Da Vinci is obviously pretty awesome, but as mentioned it is very expensive ($1,000,000 range), and the new one will only be more costly. Most hospitals cannot afford this, especially in rural areas, let alone the vast majority of the world. While it is a great forward looking technology, we still need to focus on practical solutions today to help treat and cure the billions of people that will never see a robot.
- elmuerte17, on 06/19/2009, -1/+1sentence FRAGMENT, thank you very much.
- Dongvid, on 06/18/2009, -1/+1"We lost him, doc. We simply weren't fast enough."
They should have used Intel's compilers instead of GNU's free implementation. Saves lives. - cruelsniper, on 06/18/2009, -1/+0I actually thought the same thing when I saw it...
- sh0rtstop00, on 06/18/2009, -4/+3besides the slides shows, her talk is slow and boring
- Inceptious, on 06/19/2009, -3/+0Why the ***** are people digging you up? Does anyone know what a documentar actaully is?
- inactive, on 06/18/2009, -4/+1*Buried
- elmuerte17, on 06/18/2009, -5/+1buried for incorrect use of apostrophe in title.
- inactive, on 06/18/2009, -11/+2The woman in the thumbnail looks like Sarah Palin.
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