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The whole idea of putting something in your body that AI came up with is unnerving, but this microfluid jet stream method of injection is kind of blowing my mind.

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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't say nobody uses it. In the nineties we had the option to take a vaccine (don't know which one. DPT? variola?) through that pistol thing or a regular needle. That thing hurts more, and leaves a bigger mark/scar than the needle. But it's faster as vaccination teams don't need to spend time discarding sharps. It was a stream of crying kids returning to class.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 6 points 3 days ago

....oh. uhhh. well then! 😅 that's quite unfortunate

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was reading a scientific paper on Jet Injection and noticed that part :

Subsequent bench studies of it and the more common Ped-O-Jet® indicated that their nozzles could become contaminated with hepatitis B virus and pose a risk for transmission

Ped-O-Jet®

Did they seriously choose that name for their product? Was that an Epstein business? WTF.

For anyone interested here is the full study I was reading and is very interesting :

https://siamlotus.com/pubs/Weniger-GlobVacForum-Montreux-HighSpeedJetInjectors-abs.pdf

[–] klugerama@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Pediatrics, Pedialite, and pedophile all share the same Greek root pais meaning "child". The Ped-O-Jet was developed and named in the 1960s, decades before pedophiles became so prominent in our cultural consciousness.

Back then nobody would bat an eye at that name.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days ago

Ped-o-Jet

AKA Airforce One

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 days ago

My urologist used one for my vasectomy a few years ago.