I love technology-gy-gy-gy-gy.

[reddragdiva]

Courtesy theladyeve.

("'I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the trial,' pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.")

I wonder if it'll be available on the NHS.

Comments

[latexiron.livejournal.com]

I presume that quote is from Sigue Sigue Sputnik ?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Apparently this technology was originally tested on rats. They all starved to death as they were too engrossed in pressing the 'pleasure button' to remember to eat.

I suspect this might be true of many humans also.

[theladyeve.livejournal.com]

You say that like it's a bad thing. Better way to go than most.

[vatine]

"She shifted her mortal coil with a sigh, a moan and a groan"?

[theladyeve.livejournal.com]

Indeed! :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

The French do call it le petit mort.

[vatine]

So do Swedes (but in Swedish, of course). Makes the song lines "as night comes by, how sweet to die" rather... piquant.

[reddragdiva]

Perhaps it will be available on the dole and pension.

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

Apparently this technology was originally tested on rats. They all starved to death as they were too engrossed in pressing the 'pleasure button' to remember to eat.

Have you got reference for that?

I've heard the same thing about rats given access to a button to trigger dopamine after their reuptake had been inhibited. That isn't what this guy's trying to market as an "orgasm machine", is it? Because, really, that's more like a straight Ecstacy drip, but not exactly orgasmic...

[wednesday]

Geez; can't Hitachi just market the magic wand outside America?