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Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters
You may soon have another option to lose weight other than dieting and exercise thanks to Dean Kamen. The inventor has designed a pump that can suck the cheeseburgers out of your stomach and replace it with water. From the article: "The pump was invented by Dean Kamen, the same man who brought you the Segway, and perhaps more fittingly, a breakthrough dialysis machine. This pump works by routing a tube directly into the user's stomach and then sucking out some of the gooey, masticated goodness. The user then squeezes a little plastic bag to replace that volume of stomach-stew with water. Sounds great, right? There are some catches though. It hasn't been approved by the FDA yet, and some of the users in the tests had problems with certain foods like 'cauliflower, broccoli, Chinese food, stir fry, snow peas, pretzels, chips, and steak.' Oh, also there's a tube going into your stomach that you use to pump unpuked vomit into the toilet. Participants in trial studies did manage to lose about half of their excess weight this way, around 45 pounds on average, so apparently it works."
Or at least a marketable, respectable form of bulimia.
I'd rather do it the Roman way - stuff myself silly and drink until dawn, than just vomit it all up...
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maybe drink more water so you feel full?
Let the great global in-home vomitoriums commence!
BULI - O-MATIC
Just not eat all those cheeseburgers in the first place? Hah! Crazy talk, I know!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
You just waste the food...
Why not just chew it and then spit it out and drink a glass of water?
My stomach just pumped itself, all over my keyboard, whilst reading about it.
so do tapeworms, and not eating so much crap food!!
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This is going to revolutionize nutrition and eating, just like the Ginger/Segway has revolutionized transportation in our cities.
so I will spend $60 in a glorious dinner. then this tube will puke it for me. sounds stupid
Using that thing would definitely put me off food.
Why on earth would you want to suck out the broccoli? This gadget needs a fiberscopic camera that will allow you to view the semi-digested morsels and suck out the ones you don't want to keep.
There should be some way to preserve and reuse the pumpings, perhaps compost or soylent green or something.
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... It's made of what eventually would have been people!
i mean just think of the whole five people you've actually seen in real life on a Segway...where any of them NOT government employees? Only people I've seen using those things are fatass NYPD beatcops giving directions to tourist in Times Square. I'm sure this guy will find a way for medicare or medicaid or obamacare or some kind of government cash funnel to buy a bunch of these fucking things.
Just ewww.
Though anyone else feel a little queasy reading the summary?
Actually I can see how this makes sense. Kind of like how e-cigs have gotten me off of smoking regular cigs for the last three years. It's an effective middle ground that satisfies the overwhelming urge, but takes away the worst side effect.
to get this installed?
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and much easier to digest a second time, well camels do it!
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
Eeewww.
Seriously, EEEWWW.
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fuck are you talking about, fool?
only segways i've seen are for hire in touristy cities for walking tours (or, rather, segway tours), or at big convention centres.
cops on segways? i should take up petty theft, though i wouldn't want to get run over by a fat cop on a segway.
Several studies have show obese people prefer easily accessible food.
Stock up on hard-to-prepare food: eggs, flour, potatoes, etc.
These foods also happen to be inexpensive. And cuts down on all types of "impulse eating" as you ask yourself "Do I really want to spend 15 minutes on a snack or can I wait?" Of course, this practical advice doesn't make a guy on TV any money and doesn't make a mega-corp any money and doesn't sell books on a talk show ...
Why not just get rid of the middle man and just do this? No eating, puking, or weight gain! http://www.nextnature.net/2006/04/cloaca/
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"Recent estimates suggest that 16 per cent of the energy consumed in the US is used to produce food. Yet at least 25 per cent of food is wasted each year..."
"There are nearly a billion malnourished people in the world, but all of them could be lifted out of hunger with less than a quarter of the food wasted in Europe and North America. In a globalised food system, where we are all buying food in the same international market place, that means we're taking food out of the mouths of the poor."
In this context, a food evacuator for pampered fat people seems like the height of absurdity as if were something taken directly off the page of a Monty Python or Yes Men script.
Yes, and energy should somehow be extracted from it and fed back into the grid
And let your demons eat for you !!
Everything will be just fine, I'm sure. There's nothing that can go wrong with this. Nope. Not a thing. No sir-ee Bob.
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So has this guy effectively created a medical device?? And is he testing it out on human subjects illegally??
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And I agree with those who wrote earlier that this is a "mechanical barf-o-matic" without sticking your finger down your throat. So what is he claiming for the benefits??
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bene 1: no acid reflux uppa your egophagus?
bene 2: no acid stains on your teeth and palate?
bene 3: barf yourself without the unpleasant taste coming through your mouth?
bene 4: no need to stick a finger down your throat
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But what about the fucking risks?
risk 1: take a chance of sticking the tube down your lungs! Die from asphyxiation! (what, you think you're going to do this with assistance and people around, or shamefully hidden away like those girls barfing in the girls' room at school after lunch... You know that we can hear you barfing in there, right?)
risk 2: while you pull the tube back out, couldn't the acidic vomitola in the tube keep dripping down and fall into your trachea and lungs? Voila! Acid burns in the trachea and lungs! Aspiration pneumonia!!
risk 3: you're replacing all the good stuff in your stomach with water!! Do you want to know what happens when you fuck around with your precious bodily fluids?? Look at Bulimia and water intoxication: you get arrhtythmias, hypokalemia, comas and a slow painful death: Terri Schiavo. risk 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypokalemia
risk 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
risk 6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte_disturbance
risk 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_arrhythmia_death_syndrome
Fuck the inventor of this stupidity and fuck this craziness of trying to make binge-purge socially acceptable. Fuck this madness of making purging socialy necessary or acceptable. Wasn't Dean Kamen the genius behind "Ginger"? : A code name for the Segway PT used before its release on December 3, 2001 (see last entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_(disambiguation) ). Madness of the morons gone wild.
Dieting and exercise? For suckers. Bring on the pump.
If your kid swallows something nasty it would be good to have this handy. There are certain things that should not be vomited up and this could be a useful application for the device (more useful than what they are marketing it for anyway).
...how does this man's mind dart around like that? Or am I missing the obvious connection between self-balancing scooters and stomach pumps?
Any opening into the human body is going to substantially increase risk of infection. It sounds like the tubes on this thing can get clogged easily and I'm not sure what you're expected to do when that happens. It doesn't sound like a great risk/reward trade off.
Some of Dean Kamen's inventions, and they are far too many to list, are serious and lifesaving or serious and useful. Some are astonishing like the whhelchair that lifts the person in it to standing height when they need to. Other inventions of his are kind of fun but rather silly. My personal favourite is an analog clock with oval gears that slows down during work hours and speeds up during lunch break.
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Word of the day: vomitorium.
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Now struggling mothers can cut down on their food costs and still feed their children.
"Are you going to eat that.. again?"
this will be the moment historians will point to.
I think I'll apply for a patent on that.
Have gnu, will travel.
So basically, they don't change what they eat, or how much of it they eat...they just remove the effects of eating it...and when they stop using the device they will gain the weight right back...in fact, if the body thinks it needs to eat _more_ to get the same nutrition, the patient may end up heavier.
I'm sorry, but this is beyond stupid...it's only effective as a permanent implant, which would totally compromise quality of life.
We have a standard form for spam solution failures, we should really have the same for tricks to loose weight.
That solution is likely to help loosing weight, but as soon as the user will stop using that tube, (s)he will regain weight, thanks to the negative feedback the body maintains on its adipose stocks. But perhaps this is not a bug, but a feature : once someone use it and gets satisfied by the results, this is a product that will be hard to put down.
Good solutions to loose weight on the long term are to modify the diet forever (eat less carb if you want to give your body a chance to burn fat), or to modify exercise habits forever (building muscle is especially interesting as it burns fat even when one is not exercising)
Of course it works.
This just allows you to eat and prompyly remove what you ate. Doesn't mean it's healthy, but it will certainly help you lose weight.
Want to lose weight? Eat less than you burn off. There's no magic to it. Sorry fat fucks with no personal responsibility (myself included at one point) -- but that's the hard truth there.
Window 1 is where you pay
Window 2 is where you pick up your food
Window 3 is where... you give some of the food back, thanks to Dean Kamen
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Reminds me of Paul Theroux's novel Millroy the Magician. Millory would stick a tube down his throat and pump out a bit of the food to examine it.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
As if we didn't have enough wasted food in our societies, along comes Dean Kamen to help solve the problem by... er, helping us waste even more food.
So, assuming this thing gets approved by the FDA, people who lack any will power whatsoever will be able to by a pump so that they can eat all of the nasty junk food they want, and then, hopelessly oblivious to the pathetic creatures they have become, kneel down in front of the toilet with a stomach pump to suck it all back out once they are satiated.
I've got an idea! How about you just don't eat the food in the first place? BUT IT TASTES SO GOOD!
If, however, the device is approved only when recommended by a doctor and used to make those that are fat because of their own lack of self control (95%+ of them?) realise what a total joke their dietary habits have become. However, I seriously doubt that is the reason Dean Kamen is trying to sell this thing, and if it gets approved I suspect he will make a shit load of money from it.
A pithy answer like "Eat less and exercise" obviously doesn't cut it. That's like the joke about how to put a giraffe in a refrigerator. You open the refrigerator, put the giraffe in, and close the door.
Some findings and facts that have received some publicity lately:
There are a bunch of other lifestyle factors that can cause weight problems: too much sitting, pollution, artificial lighting, stress, and disease. The obesity epidemic is not going to be solved with a "Just Say No" campaign to cheeseburgers.
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I tried the water diet. I think it "works" by making you spend half your day walking to and from the rest-room. I wore 2 zippers out. Another side-effect is having to leave in the middle of meetings. Embarrassing.
Table-ized A.I.
Now you can eat your cake and have it, too!
...and sitting, totally soberm, in a train hurtling through early-morning Europe, this "news item" strikes me as particularly gross. Bweurk.
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The problem is that during our evolution, excessive food availability was rarely a problem, but starvation was. Thus, our body has several mechanisms to "ensure" we bulk up when we can.
Who knows, the chubby ones may be the only who survive the apocalypse. The cheeseburger may save humanity.
It's difficult to tell our body to ignore 4 billion years of evolution. Yes it can be done for the short term if you focus all your discipline on it, but then you don't have any discipline left over for commenting code, checking your Slahsdot grammer, etc.
Table-ized A.I.
Just eat less you fat American bastards....
"Man vs. Food" - Only in America.
It makes me sick (no pun intended)
My wife had a stomach reduction procedure a year ago. Before that she had to follow a strict psicological therapy for a year to be approved for the procedure, this is not required but that's how her doctor works.
She had several options, and the advice from her doctor was to choose any of the couple of reducing stomach interventions. All the other options which include putting some kind of contraption into the stomach fail in a big percentage of the patients. This happens because patients learn to control the comtraptions, air balloons, etc. and end tricking them to eat more.
Slides down the throat and makes you thow up but would avoid the acid burning your throat, mouth, teeth. Another great drunk idea stolen!
The medical Term for this is "Gastric Lavage" it is NORMALLY an emergency procedure for poisoning.
But NOW? This is a Diet method? BAD IDEA!
Gastric Lavage suctions up chunks of stomach too!
This is CRIMINAL medical Quackery!
So this guy is all about balancing machines. First he comes up with a two-wheeled unicycle that balances itself, now a machine that balances your diet for you. Does he do political machines? I could name a few hundred people in Washington who could use his help in that department.
You could just eat less, save money on food, and not use as much toilet paper?
I'm still overweight, but I keep at it, and I feel much better now that I exercise 4 or more days a week. Sure it's hard the first few weeks but once eight weeks pass you'll notice you can sleep better, and have more energy when awake. Gimmicks like this are not the answer.
It's not necessarily lazy. It's a convenient I/O interface for the stomach, and the perfect accompaniment for the Cinco Food Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-o7YG3x0DI
Wouldn't it be simpler to sew your lips shut?
by all the disgusting fast food and candy companies.. imagine the waddling masses given free reign to just keep on eating.. A corporate goldmine.
More expensive than the esophagal throat dance, but without the acid burns.
No use for compost. Too acidic. Acid and protease though... once you strain out the chunky bits, it'd make a great drain unclogger.
Just imagining this is enough to make lose my appetite. Hey, maybe it works after all!
And if someone can't bring themselves to spend some time on an exercise bike, how are they going to make themselves pump out the contents of their stomach? It sure sounds a lot less pleasant than hitting the gym or just going for a walk. I can try to reduce my food intake, and try to make myself exercise. Sometime I'll succeed, sometimes I'll fail, but there's no way I could bring myself to use this device.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-low-calorie_diet
This thing works if you can stick with it. I've lost 50kgs by being on that diet in three sessions.
Once you get past the starting phase of 3-4 days and you don't eat any thing else than the diet products you are not in hunger. The body is in ketosis and uses fat for energy.
Unfortunately for americans it is not available in US without constant medical supervision which will run in to thousands of dollars. In parts of Europe VLCD products are available in supermarkets.
Sorority chickies win out over any frat boys!
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Re: Clearly you were not in a fraternity.
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Hahaha! Touch'e (with a little french accent at the end!)
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However, fratboys have nothing on sorority girls when it comes to frequent flying on the toilet bowl. The sisters of O-I-ate-toomucha have way more experience throwing up than frat boys do, since they like to get rid of their meals even when they haven't been drinking, and even the alcohol (to get rid of the alcohol calories) even if they aren't so drunk that their body makes them throw up.
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See, that's the sickness. The boys in the frat are throwing up involuntarily because of their alco-hol-X-cess, whereas the pretty little girls are throwing up because of the amazing voluntary control they have over their bodies and their stupid brains let them do it.!!!
I do however like your retort about frat-boys!
remind me never to give this fucker any money, for his next trick he'll sell you the idea of shit in a paper bag as lunch
This contraption will join the the ever-lengthening list of diet, surgical, and appliance gimmicks that earn huge profits.
The marketing genius lies in the fact that porkies will spend a ton of money on gimmicks that are all, essentially, just self-esteem enhancements or plausible excuses for chronic gluttony.
These people need to eat less and exercise more. Someone should craft a contract for obesity which requires the person to undergo a regimen of diet and exercise with daily motivational checkins plus random weigh-in audits where there there is a financial penalty for non-compliance. Perhaps it is something that health insurers could even offer it on the basis that an obese person is likely to have more health related issues than a fit person and therefore it's in their interest to ensure people are as fit as possible.
This looks to me to be the single most disgusting invention I've ever seen. Surely it's easier to just eat smaller meals rather than gorge, then pump partially digested food out through a pipe through your gut. I guess it tops the Segway as stupidest invention ever.
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And you sheiking yerbouty is just as upfront, eh? Please note the points I made, which are about the still factual and correct points in my original post, along with noting the anonymous coward's anonymity and cowardice. My post spoke for itself; I speak for my self. Anway, pot, kettle, blackness?? C'est la vie.
How is it not less effort to just eat less in the first place ?
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It would be much more useful if people could liposuct their own body fat, which can then be rendered to biodiesel for powering their cars. This way, nothing gets wasted and the body is effectively used as a biofuel processing plant.
What are the advantages of a gastric port...
Safe - Gastric ports are pretty well established medical technology. The first gastric port was a man with a bullet hole into his stomach, and he lived with a hole in him for many years. His doctor (researcher) stuck bits of food in the hole on a string and pulled them out again later.
Reversible - a gastric port can be removed. Most bariatric surgery cannot be reversed - Bands can, but they can also slip and are not as effective as other bariatric options.
Controllable - the amount of food/calories removed by this process can be controlled to a fine degree. It also will not (given suitable timing) interfere with normal absorption of medications/nutrients (a side effect of many bariatric procedures).
This will not be a case of "slam in a port, now go away". This is a managed medical procedure for people on supervised diets who need the additional help that bariatric surgery offers, but with less risk. Seems like a good plan to me. Lets see what the FDA says.
Dean Kamen says too many engineering students are going into non-engineering disciplines like game development, then invents a device which will be used by gamers to evacuate excess cheetos
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That will go well with my continuous baster. I've found that basting a duck every 15 minutes is labor intensive, and am working on a solution to the problem.
It's sad but true: there are some people out there who have gone their entire lives eating dry meat. They've never had a properly basted fowl or roast, and even think that adding gravy afterwards somehow fixes things. Mes amis, you must baste the meat before it is fully cooked, or all flavor leaves it!
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Vomiting is REALLY bad for you. The acid in your stomach ruins your throat, your teeth and the heaving itself is also not that good for you I have heard (bad for teeth/soft tissue is medical fact, the heaving is hearsay). Also, if acid goes down the wrong way, you damage your lungs.
This spares the throat and teeth.
I still can't think this is a good idea. Just the change of leakage alone is worrying, your stomach contents are designed to stay in your stomach. Not slosh around in your stomach cavity if a leak develops. I also would think having to replace all the acids in your stomach would put a strain on your system. I have vomited purely from pain (not sickness) and it leaves you feeling miserable for a long time afterwards, I think your need to have your stomach contents stay inside of you, and vomiting them up is not good for you.
But for anyone for who it isn't a choice between vomiting and a hole in your stomach, I suppose this might be better.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
If I had the choice between getting tubes jammed into my innards or just inducing vomiting, I know what I'd pick.
I get the feeling a lot of people think this device will be easily available at will for people who really make the choice to binge eat, then purge as the romans did. This is PROBABLY in real life meant for patients who have tried everything else and it just don't work. And we can moan "just stop eating" usually done by people on their tenth cup of coffee standing outside in freezing rain for the joy of smoking.
Stomach bands sound simple but people die from them, no I don't know how, just know that it isn't a safe luxury operation done by doctors just because you asked.
I would be highly surprised if on a NHS like system doctors are just going to put holes in peoples stomach designed to stay OPEN for the hell of it. Well at least I would be surprised if you couldn't bring such a doctor up before a tribunal. First do no harm is rather hard to claim when a person has a hole in their stomach.
This probably isn't intended as a vanity item but a last ditch option for people for who other methods don't work. I can't imagine ANYONE is going to do is for vanity/fashion reasons however.
Say for a instance a supermodel choosing this over bulemia, how is she going to explain the tube sticking out during a bikini shoot? Hell, wearing anything tight. Anyone doing this out of vanity reasons, is going to be talked out of it by their doctor. Holes in your body are NOT fun, just ask anyone with a colonspy (?) bag (lower down, for taking the shit out of you).
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090323/7-rules-for-eating
Segway seemed like a great idea....but it just lowered the physical activity level of people who stopped walking. Thus making them fatter. What a cunning plan to sell stomach evacuators.
... Is a great book that helped me lose a lot of weight
The author, Gary Taubes, basically says that a south beach/atkins/low glycerimic index diet is the way to go. He does so by explaining the metabolism at hand, and providing studies to explain various points.
I read the book, shifted my eating habits, and lost thirty pounds rather easily. I then got lazy and sloppy and stopped losing weight- but my appetite and habits have been shifted enough that I haven't gained any back.
One of the key insights in his book is that you'd give the same advice for building up an appetite before a sumptous dinner as you would give to someone losing weight- ie:
1) Don't eat much before hand
2) Exercise a bunch to make yourself hungry.
Any scheme based on that alone is bound to fail. Any scheme where you can't eat whenever you want is bound to fail.
That leaves what you eat as the variable. Taubes explains why you should stear away from vertain foods. Good luck.
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Overstuffed? Get our bullimi-o-matic 3000, with extra suction to keep that stomach lining fit and trim!
A diagnosis of bulimia will require insurance companies to purchase this thing as a medical device, since frequent vomiting causes so many problems to the upper GI tract.
Good ole USA medicine - treat the symptoms, not the disease. The former is more profitable.
My first name is Dieter, you insensitive clod!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Except, well... while I do own a Segway -- employees get what comes to a 50% discount, and in November of '08, it really, really looked like they were about to go belly-up; figured I'd get one while I still could -- I admit that the bike argument is a decent one. I really do enjoy riding Segways (or "PT's" -- personal transporters -- since Segway(tm) refers to the company, and not their product), but there are many drawbacks. Personally, I think they are freaking ideal for sightseeing. The best thing ever. As someone who'd ridden them for years, it wasn't until I'd gone on a sightseeing trip that I realized how awesome they can be, when used for their intended niche. Outside of that niche? Maybe not so much...
Oh. And Dean likely didn't "invent" the pump, no more than he "invented" the Segway. (The insulin pump is all his, though.) What Dean truly excels at is putting a bunch of relatively inexpensive engineers in a big mill building, and then promoting himself on what they produce.
That is the most bullshit idea I've ever seen.
humanity is fucked.
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Sounds great... but what if my name isn't Dieter?
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This is one of the most wasteful things I have ever seen. It's right up there with Hummers.
If the food doesn't have very high caloric "density", normal body should at some point start signalling that you have eaten enough. First hunger disappears and if you still force yourself to continue eating, you will start feeling nauseous and if you ignore that, at some point you start vomiting. However, some foods don't trigger that reactions fast enough compared to the calories they contain and there are sick people, like bulimics or persons with Prader-Willi syndrome, where this mechanism doesn't seem to work well enough, which cause them to eat extreme amounts.
It's Bulimia w/o the awesome ab's!! No need to workout your tummy muscles with this!
He is Fucking Brilliant!
1) Invent machine to make people fat by removing the need for them to walk
2) Make bulimia fashionable
3) Profit!!!
Brilliant!!!
"Dean Kamen's inventions" are rarely *his* inventions. The insulin pump is 100% his. In a sense, so is his business model: hire a bunch of smart engineers, relatively inexpensively, put them in a mill building in Manchester, NH, and tout whatever comes out as your idea. I doubt he actually uses those words -- but I also doubt he denies it when it's implicitly assumed.
Visiting Deanery might involve stomach pumping due to extensive alcoholic consumption at the premises. The other kind of pumping has not been so common after the tennis incident, though.
Totally OT.
How does one manage to have a super-low ID (2919) with a super-new device identifier (Nexus7)??
May, I, please, become a Galaxy-S-3 with an ID of, e.g. 1918? Pleeeeze!
Tubes going into your body are a source of nasty infections. These tubes will need to get cleaned regularly, with the additional complication of highly perishable food in it.
Its a device that needs to be surgically implanted that goes from the stomach through the abdominal wall; unless you have it implanted in your child in advance, its not going to be of any use if they swallow something they shouldn't.
What could possibly go wrong?
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OMG, it has problems sucking out cauliflower and broccoli. Is that going to be an issue for overweight people using this device? Maybe if you coat those veggies in cheese and butter the extra lubrication will aid the removal by the machine.
I am surprised Dyson didn't invent this yet. He makes products that suck all the time, I am sure cauliflower wouldn't stop it.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I lost my appetite just thinking about it...
a septic tank and drain field.
Will the next FIRST challenge be a robot that vomits?
The big problem is that we need more of the right children.
We could do this by dividing your government money (taxes and welfare) by family size. High income earners would thus be encouraged to have kids, while welfare recipients would be discouraged.
A similar solution for China would be to offer 1-child-policy exemptions for women who do well on college entrance exams.
A natural application for a transporter.
Wow, this is just f'n crazy. All I can think of is the movie Brazil. Between the ridiculous plastic surgery and the whacked HVAC systems, this thing sounds like something right out of Terry Gilliam's warped imagination. But it does work. :)
My name is Gunter, and I'm overweight. Is there a solution for us Gunters?
Depends on where you live. In places with alkaline soil this would be a great soil amendment if you want to grow acid loving plants like blueberries.
I'm mostly serious about this: at 30 expect to eat 1/2 of what you ate at 20. At 40, eat 1/2 that. At 50, 1/2 that, etc. When you're old and rich, you may not have hair or be wrinkle-free, but you'll have stayed thin and be eating an overpriced morsel of taste-rich food from a drizzle-decorated plate just like rich people in cartoons (and in real highbrow restaurants).
Perhaps you could pump it directly into a hungry person's stomach.
This is the most retarded invention ever. If you want to lose weight, the answer is simple: eat nothing but meat, green vegetables, fat, and bottled water. You don't need to go hungry at all. You will lose all your excess weight in a jiffy, and you will feel great. Have a little rice once in a while. A LITTLE! Until you reach your ideal weight, then you can have a little more. The fat is key - I like ghee. Google it, and make it yourself. It's easy and tastes way better than any I've bought in a store.
Social Credit would solve everything...
This invention might seem shallow, but there is a noble plot afoot... These pumps will actually save the food they remove in order to be exported to poorer communities and nations around the world. Dean Kamen will solve world hunger by recycling pre-masticated food! Can you imagine... U.S. #1 export for 2013: pre-masticated food. We are certainly good at masticating!
Romans. Ostrich Feathers. Vomitorium. Which see.
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Your points are valid, but I think your conclusion misses the point. Scientific American, oh, 20 years ago, had a fascinating article, the basic conclusion of which was that the HUGE amount of (say) African famine is directly attributable to corruption and political instability. Bad infrastructure is a symptom of these. That's the irony, in a sense: colonialism in Africa implemented good infrastructure, but also the seeds of horrid political conditions after the collapse of said colonialism. Now the whole thing -- especially what with religious fanatics and easily accessible weapons in the mix -- is a vicious cycle. And, simply put, I don't see a way out of it.