Technabob » injury http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:00:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Researchers Develop Printer That Prints Skin http://technabob.com/blog/2010/11/01/skin-printer/ http://technabob.com/blog/2010/11/01/skin-printer/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:56:24 +0000 Shane McGlaun http://technabob.com/blog/?p=42133 I once knew a guy that had been in a fire that burned his hands and arms badly. He had to get skin grafts that left him with scars elsewhere on the body to replace the skin that burned on his arms. Those skin graft areas gave his as much pain and trouble as the actual burns did.

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A group of researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has developed new tech that is described as being similar to an ink jet printer that is able to print skin directly onto a wound (Opens PDF doc). The printer sprays a combination of skin cells, collagen, and blood coagulants onto the wound that form skin once mixed at the print head. Naturally, the wound still has to heal, but the hope is that the printer tech could one day replace the need for skin grafts.

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Once perfected, the process could be used to treat soldiers with injuries on the battlefield.

[via Technology Review via DVICE]

]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2010/11/01/skin-printer/feed/ 0 A Devastating Story: Industrial Robot Nearly Kills Swedish Factory Worker http://technabob.com/blog/2009/05/01/industrial-robot-nearly-kills-factory-worker/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/05/01/industrial-robot-nearly-kills-factory-worker/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 12:30:21 +0000 Lambert Varias http://technabob.com/blog/?p=12308 The Local…, the unnamed worker thought that he had cut off the machine’s power supply so]]> More pants-wetting robo-news here at technabob: A defective robot “generally used to lift heavy rocks” attacked and nearly killed a Swedish factory worker that was actually trying to repair the machine. According to The Local, the unnamed worker thought that he had cut off the machine’s power supply so he “approached the robot with no sense of trepidation.”

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Unfortunately, the robot suddenly sprang into action and grabbed the man’s head. Let this be the 4th law of Robotics: Always approach a robot with a sense of trepidation.

Shia LeBouf The man managed to free himself from the robots’ grasp, but not before it broke four of his ribs. Public prosecutor Leif Johansson fined the company 25,000 kronor ($3,000 USD) for its “inadequate safety procedures”, but also acknowledged that the worker is partly to blame for what happened. Prosecutor Johansson is obviously a robot, as he did not fine or even reprimand the machine.

[via BB Gadgets]

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