07-10-2004, 02:00 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Japanese Vampire Robots Want Your Blood
While the headline is slightly sensationalistic, it's really not that far off the mark. A Japanese company has announced an automated booth that extracts blood from your body. I have several problems with this. First of all, how exactly does it know where to stick the needle? As far as I know, everyone's veins are different. Personally, I do not want a robot playing "Find the Vein" on my arm with something pointy.
As scary as that is, the thing that bothers me the most about this device is the possibility of a software crash in the middle of the "Blood Extraction Sub-Routine". I can see it now: my marble-white cold body slumped in the booth, one arm clamped inside the machine, the other wrapped around my Pocket PC (displaying a web page on how much blood the human body holds), my face lit eerily from below by the pale blue light of the screen, which reads "Fatal Exception Error". :mrgreen:
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07-10-2004, 02:16 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I wonder, where exactly do you stick your arm??? 8O
And why is there not a seat in there? You should at least get to be comfortable while you are examined with fish hooks and sucky tubes :lol:
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07-10-2004, 02:19 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
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No more need for nurses! All your medical needs filled automatically! Just be careful when the Nurse-o-matic takes your temperature...
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07-10-2004, 03:27 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I'm more concerned about the cleanliness of the apparatus use. How does the machine ensure sterilization? I don't think that's possible for a machine that's designed to be on the field for a prolonged period of time....
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07-10-2004, 03:37 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I wonder what conceivable relevance this article has, to be on Pocket PC Thoughts?
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07-10-2004, 03:59 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally Posted by Simon Crow
I wonder what conceivable relevance this article has, to be on Pocket PC Thoughts?
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Because we have a forum called "OFF TOPIC"?
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07-10-2004, 04:01 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by felixdd
I'm more concerned about the cleanliness of the apparatus use. How does the machine ensure sterilization? I don't think that's possible for a machine that's designed to be on the field for a prolonged period of time....
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It's like giving blood to a machine in a porta-potty :roll:
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07-10-2004, 04:05 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
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lol probably they make you sit down in a toilet like seat, and they poke you from......... the bottom :devilboy: oh wait that's for injection only hehe
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07-10-2004, 04:08 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Simon Crow
I wonder what conceivable relevance this article has, to be on Pocket PC Thoughts?
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It's a little tradition here that we tend to do various off-topic things on Friday nights. 
--janak
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07-10-2004, 04:19 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Originally Posted by Kati Compton
No more need for nurses! All your medical needs filled automatically! Just be careful when the Nurse-o-matic takes your temperature...
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In the air force the nurses dont do crap :wink:
The Med Techs/EMTs do all the dirty work. And as a person who draws a crapload of blood every day ( i draw on over 30 patients per day ) there is NO WAY IN HELL this machine would ever come within 5 miles of me
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