Tag: surgery
Robots and DNA coding to revolutionise surgery, commission says
Disposable salt grain-sized camera to revolutionize keyhole surgery
I may be a tech fan, but the thought of squeezing a camera into my innards during surgery has never appealed to me. Or probably anyone for that matter. Keyhole surgery may be about to get less invasive however due…
Apple fanboy surgically alters his pudgy thumbs to use iPhone correctly
It’s not news that Apple fans tend to be fairly obsessive about their products, with the iPhone-wielders epitomising fanboyism to a tee.
But the fact that a 28-year old American man, Thomas Martel, got his thumbs surgically altered in a radical new surgery practise known as ‘whittling’ comes as no surprise, no matter how shocking it is. Apparently the big man’s thumbs were too meaty for the delicate touch-screen buttons on his iPhone, so he did what any ‘sane’ Apple fan would do, and coughed up the cash…
Now mobile phones are being used for… appendix surgery?
No, Motorola hasn’t kitted its next RAZR out with a special intestine-slicing add-on. Although it’s a thought. Instead, surgeons in Argentina were forced to use mobile screens to illuminate an emergency appendectomy, after a power blackout nixed the lights in their operating theatre.
