The U.S. Military's weirdest medical technologies

If you are squeamish, as I am, you may want to find a way of avoiding the images before you click on this gallery of "freakiest U.S. military medical technologies." Bone cement, inside-out face transplants, suspended animation? The text, I can handle!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Brainspore

DARPA is just the cover story for the synthetic blood project. I think we all know who is really behind that research, and those people aren’t big on sunlight or garlic.
Anonymous

In a bit of irony, American wars since WWII (and maybe including WWII) have been responsible for medical technology saving more American civilian lives than have been lost by the military in the same time frame.
Anonymous

I made it as far as the faces. I need some unicorns, now.
anansi133

Thank you for the advance warning! I turned off auto-load images in Firefox, and it’s a really interesting article. I’m not even curious about the pictures, though.

Up until now, I thought everyone at BB took delight in grossing us out. I’m glad that’s not the case.