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It's longer than 100 days already in their preclinical testing but they took it out because the patient found a heart transplant. They say one upcoming improve
by energy123 2y ago
It's longer than 100 days already in their preclinical testing but they took it out because the patient found a heart transplant.
They say one upcoming improvement is wireless power via skin, somehow. At the moment the rechargeable battery lasts for five hours.
- Gigachad 2y agoSounds kinda scary. So if the battery goes flat or gets disconnected you just immediately die?
- yonatan8070 2y agoI mean, if this didn't exist you'd just immediately die a lot sooner. So I think it's a fair trade-off.
- anshumankmr 2y agoclosest thing to the arc reactor in the iron man movie...
- Maxion 2y agoThese devices have double batteries, external power, and will beep like crazy already quite a while before it runs flat.
- ljf 2y agoI can’t find the link now, but that chap who died a couple of years ago after living most of his life in an iron lung, had a similar story of being transported home on the back of a flatbed truck with a generator running, if the power went out he suffocated. His mother slept by his bed and in the case of a power cut had to manually help him breathe until the power returned. An amazing man and amazing he made it so far in life.
- ljf 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor... Quote: He spent eighteen months in the hospital. At discharge, his parents rented a portable generator and a truck to bring him and his iron lung home. Beginning in 1954, with help from the March of Dimes and a physical therapist named Mrs. Sullivan, Alexander taught himself glossopharyngeal breathing, which allowed him to leave the iron lung for gradually increasing periods of time.