Hip Science: Better Bone Implants

ke4roh writes "Space, medicine, and invention often cross paths. In this case, the invention is a new artificial hip. Scientists are researching ways to manufacture strong and porous ceramics with the benefit of microgravity - subtracting the effects of convection and settling from their experiment. In the end, they hope to offer a permanent artificial hip - much more user-friendly than today's models that come unglued and require replacement after only 5-10 years of use. It's just one more way space research helps to make life better on Earth."

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That's pretty hip stuff

Oh come on someone had to say it!!

New hip for grandma today, Cyborgs tomarrow.

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I can't wait until they make hips that will make grandma bigger, better, faster, stronger.

Imagine it now: full contact bingo/shuffleboard/canasta is once again possible!

Now grandpa can PROVE to us that he used to walk uphill to school--in the snow, with no shoes--for 20 miles!

Uncle Leroy can _finally_ show us the move that won him the '93 Limbo tournament--which coincidentally broke the hip in the first place!

Oh the joy of old age and technology combined.

And, if we apply Moore's Law to this, I should be able to have a full endoskeleton that will increase my strength 1000 times by the time I'm 45. Combined with the fact that computers/technology will be getting smaller at the same rate, I will be able to have a Beowulf cluster of computers inside myself--which in turn will be connected over a wireless network (called "The Grid" by the kids of the day.) that will connect every person on the planet.

We will be walking, living, breathing, and thinking Beowulf clusters. And that will be the true end of these stupid "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!" posts in Slashdot!