Supersonic Needle-Less Injector a la Star Trek

Doofus writes "Yahoo is carrying some Reuters copy about a new injector device that sounds like the 'hypo' from Star Trek. It's a needle-less injector that uses helium to inject powdered medicine through the skin at supersonic speeds. The future is almost here! The manufacturers have been working on this product since at least 1993, and expect it to go into production in 2001."

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Site of the company here

[Raindeer]

Powderject has an interesting site. It shows some models of what their products should look like. They are now working on three products:

PowderJect Lidocaine for local anesthesia

PowderJect Hepatitis B DNA Vaccine

PowderJect Alprostadil for male erectile dysfunction

The last one should get all the lame AC's going... :-)

There are also some realvideo's of the product. I am just glad that this removes the need for needles in alot (though probably not all) cases

Re:Site of the company here

[Anonymous Coward]

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Injections without Needles

[Detritus]

What is the advantage of this over the old device that uses high pressure air? If you have been in the U.S. military, you are familiar with the vaccine "guns" used for mass immunizations of military personnel.

Re:Injections without Needles

[Anonymous Coward]

Whut in tarnation is th' advantage of this hyar ovah th' old device thet uses high pressure air? Eff'n yo' haf been in th' U.S. military, yer familiar wif th' vaccine
"guns" used fo' mass immunizashuns of military varmintnel, ah reckon.

Re:Injections without Needles

[Anonymous Coward]

What in tarnation is the advantage of this here over the old device that uses high-pressure air? If you have been in the US military you'll be familiar with the vaccine guns used for mass immunizations of military personnel.

How this is important

[Anonymous Coward]

Thees is un impurtunt defelupment thet veell ifentooelly elloo oooor vurld tu becume-a leeke-a zee suceeelist vurld ooff Ster Trek. Thees is a fery guud theeng.
Zeese-a defeeces shuoold be-a used es veedely es pusseeble-a.

Re:so why does no one mention....

[Anonymous Coward]

I imagine the reason that nobody mentions the impact it could have on illegal drug use is that the company doesn't want the press for it, or (more likely) you have to have really tiny particles of the drug, which would be hard to make with heroin for example.

Re:so why does no one mention....

[Anonymous Coward]

Heroine is cut with all kinds of crap. You would really need to have some kind of regulated illegal narcotics trade to make it work for this little doohicky I would think.

so why does no one mention....

[Anonymous Coward]

The impact this could have on illegal drug use. Seems like this could be part of a solution to the needle sharing problem and the disease that it spreads.

on display.

[Zurk]

the star trek museum/display in seattle had a needle less injector in a display case using high pressure air last time i saw it a while back (1997).

Freakin painful that's why

[spineboy]

I had one once and it hurt like a sun-ova-biyatch
That's why this would be beneficial....Plus the little kiddies would like i if it were truely painless