The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.
But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free.
The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. “It’s sort of like a laser beam,” project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots.
“I wouldn’t say I’m an alcoholic, but…well, let’s just say I have to think long and hard about whether or not I really need that aspirin.”
Dr. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy (Star Trek 2009)
(Source: asoftertrek)
“Well, what I remember is you acting like a complete jackass. What I can’t remember is probably worse.”
Space Whiskey to Be Produced on the International Space Station.
Space Whiskey to Be Produced on the International Space Station.
Space Whiskey to Be Produced on the International Space Station.
It’s all been worth it, this space stuff.
If they started selling this stuff to the general public we’d be able to resume manned missions with the proceeds.