In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 9, 2014 @04:33AM from the police-won't-need-kill-switches-for-cars dept.

Jason Koebler (3528235) writes One of the most important goals of transhumanist medicine—possessing a perfectly healthy heart—has so far remained elusive. This week, we came a step closer when for the second time ever, a French company implanted a permanent artificial heart in a patient. More than just pumping blood, future artificial hearts will bring numerous other advantages with them. They will have computer chips and wi-fi capacity built into them. We'll control our hearts with our smart phones, tuning down its pumping capacity when we want to sleep, or tuning it up when we want to run marathons. The patient who received the first of these hearts, though he survived for 76 days, died after the heart "stopped after a short circuit, although the exact reasons behind the death were still unknown."

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Wifi by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-09 04:38 · Score: 5, Funny

With wifi/bluetooth capability I feel like there's not anything that could possibly go wrong. It will be important to have it connect to the cloud in order to retrieve heart rate profiles for the day.
1. Re:Wifi by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-09 05:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You may skip this ad and restart your heart in 5s.
Re:This isn't supposed to happen... by qbast · 2014-09-09 04:53 · Score: 5, Funny

They are trying to reproduce the bug.