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Stanford Device Cools Body Inside Out

Posted by timothy on from the cuts-to-the-chase dept.

polished look 2 writes "This is a way cool invention: Those bright, eager scientists at Stanford invented a device that cools the body by drawing the blood to an extremity (such as the hand) and pulling the heat away it - thus the blood becomes cooler which is then re-circulated through the body. The net effect is that the entire body is cooled via this relativly small device."

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  1. Plug in Baby. by Different+Tan · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could take peoples excess heat and use it somehow... I suppose. People are great renewable energy sources. So you wear a suit that has a temp control of some kind in, it keeps you at a lovely temperature and you excess heat is siphoned off and used to power stuff. Might need a bit of extra infrastructure engineering though.

    1. Re:Plug in Baby. by UrgleHoth · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, you take a whole bunch of people, tap them for heat and equip them with VR gear, then you network them together in to a mass simulation, like some kind of matrix...

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  2. too many possibilities by tomsuchy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too many replies entered my head on this one:
    - That's cool
    - Do we get to pick the body part? I'm thinking: this and a bottle of Viagra.
    - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
    - In Russia...

    Ok, not that many...

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  3. finally, an excuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    now, when geeks build up the courage to meet women, they can blame the sweaty palms on their cooling system.

  4. I invented something like this one summer by MrHanky · · Score: 4, Funny

    I called it beer. It's not only for drinking. You can also rest the glass against a vein in your arm to cool down the bloodstream quite effectively. One downside to this is that your beer gets warm faster, so you have to drink faster, but that in turn leads to drinking more, which cools down your body as well. This also has the positive side effect of getting you sloshed.

    I don't recommend this cooler device for long distance driving.

  5. Re:Science Catches Up With Home Remedies by kai.chan · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should have patented the idea when you were a kid.