All hail the hypospray.

I read that Roddenberry had a clause in his contract that let inventors have free use of the names of devices on Star Trek if they actually made a working version in real life. That's pretty cool.

They had these when I was a kid. Doesn't this story become news every few years?


Jet injection to deliver liquid medications has existed in various forms since the 1860s.

vpb: They had these when I was a kid. Doesn't this story become news every few years?

Yes. Pneumatic injections were given to thousands of us old people when we were in primary school in the 60s during the Rubella scare.

NowhereMon: I read that Roddenberry had a clause in his contract that let inventors have free use of the names of devices on Star Trek if they actually made a working version in real life. That's pretty cool.

Wonder how he would feel about patent trolls.

vpb: They had these when I was a kid. Doesn't this story become news every few years?


Jet injection to deliver liquid medications has existed in various forms since the 1860s.

Maybe, but did they not hurt when breaking the skin? Where they cheap to produce? Where they super energy efficient?

Cheap, low power, and less trauma seems to the thing this has going for it.

TyrantII: Cheap, low power, and less trauma seems to the thing this has going for it.

Certainly, and this is a nice improvement on the hypospray. It is not the invention of the hypospray, however.

As long as there is little chance of embolism or contamination this sounds like a good improvement over the older hyposprays.

Ok, now for more important stuff... Whar, holodeck, whar?

/giggity

vpb: Doesn't this story become news every few years?


Yes.

I, for one, have never heard of this before...

and it made me go "wow"

TyrantII: vpb: They had these when I was a kid. Doesn't this story become news every few years?


Jet injection to deliver liquid medications has existed in various forms since the 1860s.

Maybe, but did they not hurt when breaking the skin? Where they cheap to produce? Where they super energy efficient?

Cheap, low power, and less trauma seems to the thing this has going for it.

It looks like the big problem with the old jet injectors was that they could pass around diseases during reuse, especially Hep-B.

Apparently it was invented by Mark Twain.

I remember the military vaccination line with the old jet units. The instructions were simple: relax your muscle, and don't move. The guy ahead of me moved; it sliced him open real purty.

I remember going through a gauntlet of those in Parris Island, and my arms dripping this and that vaccine near the end.

/Long live the core!

It makes me laugh when they say that they've not tested this yet on a human. OF COURSE they have. You gotta know that they were standing around the lab one night, after having injected sheep and whatnot, when one guy suddenly rolls up his sleeve for the cause.

Oh, and:

buckler: I remember the military vaccination line with the old jet units. The instructions were simple: relax your muscle, and don't move. The guy ahead of me moved; it sliced him open real purty.

Heck yeah.

vpb: They had these when I was a kid. Doesn't this story become news every few years?




Yes, apparently some doctor lost his mind, beamed down to some planet that had a time portal of some sort on the surface and while he was going ape shiat he jumped through the portal and left some hyposprays in the past.

Damn. For a moment I thought the headline was referring to "hippo spray." I'm not sure exactly what hippo spray would do, but I'm picturing some sort of Jeckle and Hyde transformation into a werehippo.

phyrkrakr:

It looks like the big problem with the old jet injectors was that they could pass around diseases during reuse, especially Hep-B.

Looked to me they designed it with throwaway ampoule's in mind. Doc's used to reuse needles too, until they didn't.

buckler: I remember the military vaccination line with the old jet units. The instructions were simple: relax your muscle, and don't move. The guy ahead of me moved; it sliced him open real purty.

When I went through USAF basic, we had a prior service Army guy in our flight. He warned us about that. He also told us that the medics "accidentally" slipped during the injections of every black guy in his platoon.

/cool story, MSgt

sendbillmoney: buckler: I remember the military vaccination line with the old jet units. The instructions were simple: relax your muscle, and don't move. The guy ahead of me moved; it sliced him open real purty.

When I went through USAF basic, we had a prior service Army guy in our flight. He warned us about that. He also told us that the medics "accidentally" slipped during the injections of every black guy in his platoon.

/cool story, MSgt

Heh, there was a guy in my division in Navy bootcamp that pissed and moaned for weeks because he twitched and got a nice scar across his favorite tattoo. It was just a big Ace of Spades, more of a prison tattoo than any kind of art. He didn't last too long in bootcamp.

OneFretAway: Damn. For a moment I thought the headline was referring to "hippo spray." I'm not sure exactly what hippo spray would do, but I'm picturing some sort of Jeckle and Hyde transformation into a werehippo.



Hippo spray

t3knomanser: TyrantII: Cheap, low power, and less trauma seems to the thing this has going for it.

Certainly, and this is a nice improvement on the hypospray. It is not the invention of the hypospray, however.

Hypospray would be DMSO + med, then sprayed on. Voilà!

Will this allow me to consume bad coffee without tasting it or getting indigestion?

How do we know that he didn't invent the hypospray?

TyrantII: Cheap, low power, and less trauma seems to the thing this has going for it.

A lot of cheap, low-power, low-trauma no-needle transdermal / intramuscular delivery systems have been invented. A lot, especially for transdermal. As has been said, the press makes a big deal out of it maybe every three years.

Meanwhile, for various reasons, they don't tend to come to market. Time-release electrophoretics that mount on the back of your wristwatch (or bracelet, if you don't wear a watch, or on a contact patch, if you don't wear a bracelet) and that are powered entirely by body heat have been invented. They leave no hole in the skin and cause no discomfort and can deliver a wide range of dosages quickly or slowly.

I'm not sure why they haven't come to market. Possibly a contamination problem. Possibly a liability issue. But it's not worth getting excited over these things until or unless they actually reach the market and start being used fairly widely.

SN1987a

NowhereMon: I read that Roddenberry had a clause in his contract that let inventors have free use of the names of devices on Star Trek if they actually made a working version in real life. That's pretty cool.

Wonder how he would feel about patent trolls.

Before you guys beatify roddenberry, remember he's the guy that wrote lyrics to the ST theme so he could screw the theme writer for half the fee and residuals. Then there are the numerous lies he's told about story writers, wrongly bash story writers, and taking credit for things he just didn't do / come up with.

// then there's the fact that he really sucked as a writer.

/// I like ST (for the most part) but G.R. was just the originator guy (similar to lucas) The best writing / creations came from others.

buckler: I remember the military vaccination line with the old jet units. The instructions were simple: relax your muscle, and don't move. The guy ahead of me moved; it sliced him open real purty.

This, although I suppose I was lucky, the group I was in didn't have anyone that twitched at the wrong time. There were a couple people that passed out though. The gym they had us line up in for our immunizations was hot as shiat.

vpb: They had these when I was a kid. Doesn't this story become news every few years?


Jet injection to deliver liquid medications has existed in various forms since the 1860s.

came here to say

THIS

Did they accidentally leave the real thing behind with Data's head?

DemDave: Apparently it was invented by Mark Twain.

LordOfThePings: [farm5.staticflickr.com image 640x480]

Will this allow me to consume bad coffee without tasting it or getting indigestion?

I gotta say, that coffee doesn't look 'bad,' but downright evil.

OnlyM3: The best writing / creations came from others.

DC Fontana is my personal Star Trek heroine.