Box Full of Heart
Thursday, June 8, 2006 at 2:42AM in Science John Biggs of Gizmodo has a nice, dry take on the year's most medically significant and aesthetically disturbing battery-powered device:
No time for a sit-down lunch? The Organ Care System lets you take your viable human hearts, kidneys, or livers anywhere, allowing you to enjoy the taste of fresh meat anywhere—in the park, after your work-out, or in Deepwater Cave down by the old sawmill on the edge of town.
There's even a video. Two words of warning, though: 1) It's gross. 2) When the time comes for my inevitable liver transplant, I hope the tech assigned to deliver the organ works with a tad more urgency than the guy seen here sauntering across a hospital parking lot carrying a $4.99 Igloo cooler like he's on his leisurely way to a 4th of July cookout. I know he's the "Before" in this "Before & After" scenario, but that's my liver in there. Would it kill him to stop by the Gas'n'Go for Luckies after he's delivered it to the OR?
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