For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch

rtphokie writes "The U.S. Army has created a Transdermal Nutrient Delivery System which works similarly to to nicotine or birth control patches but delivers vitamins and other micronutrients. It was developed to help "warfighters sustain their physical and mental performance" during high intensity conflict. Is this what ./'ers need during those long coding sessions."

Comments

Insulin patch - good pharmecutical uses

[Sean Clifford]

Glad to see some sci-fi turning real-world. Kinda freaky too; guess I know how my grandparents felt about landing on the moon and TV.

Anyway, it's nice to see this kind of technology being developed out of the military budget instead of another variation on the bullet, bomb, etc. It has a lot of potential and I imagine it's not long before we see folks using pharmecutical patches soon - probably tailored for their specific needs/doses.

It would be pretty nice if I could take ALL of my daily meds via a single patch rather than gulp down 10+ "easy-to-swallow if you're a horse" caplets.

Good show, GI Joe.

This makes nutrition neutral from religion

[joeflies]

Seems like there are so many restrictions in so many religions in what foods that can be eaten on a given day, then using something like this makes it easy for the army to focus on the task at hand without having to worry about keeping pork/milk/dairy/penuts, etc out of a batch of rations.

This is army food that even the Atkins diet could love!

Re:hell with food, MORE DRUGS

[blincoln]

go pills are not crank.

According to the US government, one of the meanings of "crank" is amphetamine. Since "go pills" are dexedrine, and dexedrine is an amphetamine, I think that "go pills are crank" is a logically true statemnt.