Comments on: The skin gun http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 02:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016577 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016577 I love how YouTube will let me see the burned hand placeholder image doodad, but the video itself is blocked in my country 'on copyright grounds'. I don't know if that's better or worse than the video services that let me watch the ads before telling me they won't show me the video. I love how YouTube will let me see the burned hand placeholder image doodad, but the video itself is blocked in my country ‘on copyright grounds’. I don’t know if that’s better or worse than the video services that let me watch the ads before telling me they won’t show me the video.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016582 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016582 Does it work when the skin is gone, down to muscle? I just remember lying in the hospital after a car tore off my foot, and going through the graft operations and the therapy between to remove what didn't take - it was almost as painful as when the car hit me. The picture - I've seen equal on my body, but I think most don't need to see it unless forced. Does it work when the skin is gone, down to muscle? I just remember lying in the hospital after a car tore off my foot, and going through the graft operations and the therapy between to remove what didn’t take – it was almost as painful as when the car hit me. The picture – I’ve seen equal on my body, but I think most don’t need to see it unless forced.

]]> By: Mark Frauenfelder http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016585 Mark Frauenfelder Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016585 I like it when someone a lot smarter than me has the same stupid haircut I do. I like it when someone a lot smarter than me has the same stupid haircut I do.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016853 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016853 To be honest it makes perfect sense, get a thin coat of cells that can themselves grow, attach to the body underneath and then spread to the nearby untreated areas and rebuild the skin. Waiting to grow a skin grafts is kinda ridiculous, taking skin, growing it to be bigger and then "planting" it back onto an area the same size as the skin you just grew. Makes much more sense to deposit a bunch of small "growth centers" that can grow together. It's like planting grass in your yard, if you planted a bunch of small bits of grass all over the yard, each would grow and spread to the nearby areas and you would get a full lawn after less time than if you took the same amount of starter material and grew it to be the correct large size of your lawn and layed it down in one operation. Way to use common sense to increase medical abilities, hope it helps lots of people. To be honest it makes perfect sense, get a thin coat of cells that can themselves grow, attach to the body underneath and then spread to the nearby untreated areas and rebuild the skin. Waiting to grow a skin grafts is kinda ridiculous, taking skin, growing it to be bigger and then “planting” it back onto an area the same size as the skin you just grew. Makes much more sense to deposit a bunch of small “growth centers” that can grow together. It’s like planting grass in your yard, if you planted a bunch of small bits of grass all over the yard, each would grow and spread to the nearby areas and you would get a full lawn after less time than if you took the same amount of starter material and grew it to be the correct large size of your lawn and layed it down in one operation. Way to use common sense to increase medical abilities, hope it helps lots of people.

]]> By: Digilante http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016599 Digilante Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016599 "but it's not likely to be effected" affected = have an effect on, influence, or change effected = perform something, obtain a result Please don't perpetuate the confusion ;-) “but it’s not likely to be effected”

affected = have an effect on, influence, or change
effected = perform something, obtain a result

Please don’t perpetuate the confusion ;-)

]]> By: caipirina http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016856 caipirina Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016856 while cool and such .. anybody else feels this plays like an infomercial? and yes, video content localisation SUCKS while cool and such .. anybody else feels this plays like an infomercial?

and yes, video content localisation SUCKS

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016857 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016857 I was looking for the picture of lasagna cupcakes. I was looking for the picture of lasagna cupcakes.

]]> By: P1rat3 http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016603 P1rat3 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016603 Please change "effected" in the article to "affected". :) Please change “effected” in the article to “affected”.

:)

]]> By: Jack http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016607 Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016607 This all sounds cool, but I just came back from eating some pizza, having some wine, topping it off with a brownie and tea... AND THE IMAGE OF A SEVERELY BURNED HAD THROWN IN MY FACE! Still good news. Now I need to wash that image away with kittens. K now. BYE! This all sounds cool, but I just came back from eating some pizza, having some wine, topping it off with a brownie and tea… AND THE IMAGE OF A SEVERELY BURNED HAD THROWN IN MY FACE!

Still good news. Now I need to wash that image away with kittens. K now. BYE!

]]> By: Niklas http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016611 Niklas Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016611 "This video contains content from National Geographic, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." So, I go to <a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/national-geographic-channel/shows/explorer-1/ngc-the-skin-gun.html">the source</a> and it starts playing just good for two-three seconds and then stops and says "This video is not available for this platform." WTF Nat Geo!? “This video contains content from National Geographic, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”

So, I go to the source and it starts playing just good for two-three seconds and then stops and says “This video is not available for this platform.”

WTF Nat Geo!?

]]> By: George William Herbert http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016870 George William Herbert Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016870 As someone who's been on fire before, I heartily support this technology getting tested and if generally successful rolled out for wide use. As someone who’s been on fire before, I heartily support this technology getting tested and if generally successful rolled out for wide use.

]]> By: ncinerate http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016621 ncinerate Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016621 Seems incredible. How in the world can the skin fully heal in just 4 days after spraying? Also curious how quickly they are able to go from seeing the burn patient for the first time, to being able to spray this skin cell goo onto them. I mean, they have to propagate the cells etc, I wonder how long it all takes. They make it sound like he showed up and they had cells ready to squirting almost immediately... Seems incredible. How in the world can the skin fully heal in just 4 days after spraying?

Also curious how quickly they are able to go from seeing the burn patient for the first time, to being able to spray this skin cell goo onto them. I mean, they have to propagate the cells etc, I wonder how long it all takes. They make it sound like he showed up and they had cells ready to squirting almost immediately…

]]> By: Emo Pinata http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1017646 Emo Pinata Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1017646 Am I the only one that things the Syringe pump is attached to a terrible nozzle? Am I the only one that things the Syringe pump is attached to a terrible nozzle?

]]> By: ncinerate http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016626 ncinerate Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016626 Ahh, ignore the post - just watched the video again. It takes one and a half hours from biopsy to spray. Incredible. How in the world is he getting enough cell growth to cover a burn that large in one and a half hours? Ahh, ignore the post – just watched the video again. It takes one and a half hours from biopsy to spray.

Incredible.

How in the world is he getting enough cell growth to cover a burn that large in one and a half hours?

]]> By: BastardNamban http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016885 BastardNamban Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016885 This is astounding tech. If I had had this when I got cut years ago with a flying red hot knife across the face in a freak shop accident, I would never have needed facial plastic surgery. I have a feint scar across my face 9 cm long, and this stuff would have healed my face so quickly it may never have scarred at all. Eh, it ain't all bad. "chicks dig scars" some say. It gives me more character. The people I'm really glad for are like picklelady's daughter. I can't imagine what you must have gone through emotionally when that happened. I'm glad she will be ok. Thank god science has progressed to this level, where people who had it a lot worse than me can heal without life-altering scarification and disfigurement. People say "thank god", but we really need to thank SCIENCE. And mankind. Man found the answer here, not god. All the praying in the world can't give someone their skin back in 4 days. This can. Someone explain to me why scientists like this aren't seen as role models, and why people in America mock the intelligent? This is astounding tech. If I had had this when I got cut years ago with a flying red hot knife across the face in a freak shop accident, I would never have needed facial plastic surgery. I have a feint scar across my face 9 cm long, and this stuff would have healed my face so quickly it may never have scarred at all.

Eh, it ain’t all bad. “chicks dig scars” some say. It gives me more character.

The people I’m really glad for are like picklelady’s daughter. I can’t imagine what you must have gone through emotionally when that happened. I’m glad she will be ok. Thank god science has progressed to this level, where people who had it a lot worse than me can heal without life-altering scarification and disfigurement. People say “thank god”, but we really need to thank SCIENCE. And mankind. Man found the answer here, not god. All the praying in the world can’t give someone their skin back in 4 days. This can.

Someone explain to me why scientists like this aren’t seen as role models, and why people in America mock the intelligent?

]]> By: Muse http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016633 Muse Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016633 I was so disappointed when we got to the year 2000 and everyone didn't have flying cars and personal robots. This is the kind of technology that makes me feel like we are finally living some semblance of the future we were promised. I wonder how bad the burns can be for this to still work...but I would prefer to only see the "after" photos. I was so disappointed when we got to the year 2000 and everyone didn’t have flying cars and personal robots. This is the kind of technology that makes me feel like we are finally living some semblance of the future we were promised.

I wonder how bad the burns can be for this to still work…but I would prefer to only see the “after” photos.

]]> By: Mantissa128 http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016640 Mantissa128 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016640 Yay, another "blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." I can't wait until we go post-scarcity, this is just dumb. For heaven's sake, I have a Nat Geo magazine subscription. <a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/national-geographic-channel/shows/explorer-1/ngc-the-skin-gun.html">Link to video on Nat Geo site here.</a> Now they can get their precious click-throughs. If it works this well though, it is stunning. Second-degree burns healed in four days? Unbelievable! Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXpgvsllTgs">chaser.</a> Cheers! Yay, another “blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.” I can’t wait until we go post-scarcity, this is just dumb. For heaven’s sake, I have a Nat Geo magazine subscription.

Link to video on Nat Geo site here. Now they can get their precious click-throughs.

If it works this well though, it is stunning. Second-degree burns healed in four days? Unbelievable!

Here’s a chaser.

Cheers!

]]> By: Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016645 Maggie Koerth-Baker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016645 Some day, I will be able to get that right on the first try. Today is not that day. Fixed now. Some day, I will be able to get that right on the first try. Today is not that day. Fixed now.

]]> By: jjeff1 http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016646 jjeff1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016646 A number of years ago, I was helping a neighbor burn tent caterpillar nests. A little bit of white gas did something similar to me. An area on my calf about the size of my hand was burnt almost 360 degrees around my leg. It was a 2nd degree burn, probably not quite as bad as the picture in the video. The recovery though took several weeks. I recall spending 5 straight days in bed with my leg elevated, something about pooling fluids in lower extremities causes healing problems. The healed flesh is off-color and thinner than the other leg. It's more prone to injury and sunburn. The fact that they can repair burns like this and have a 4 day rather than 4 week+ healing process is simply amazing. A number of years ago, I was helping a neighbor burn tent caterpillar nests. A little bit of white gas did something similar to me. An area on my calf about the size of my hand was burnt almost 360 degrees around my leg. It was a 2nd degree burn, probably not quite as bad as the picture in the video.

The recovery though took several weeks. I recall spending 5 straight days in bed with my leg elevated, something about pooling fluids in lower extremities causes healing problems.

The healed flesh is off-color and thinner than the other leg. It’s more prone to injury and sunburn.

The fact that they can repair burns like this and have a 4 day rather than 4 week+ healing process is simply amazing.

]]> By: libraryboi http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016648 libraryboi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016648 "but it's not likely to be effected" As per previous comments alerting you to the error, effect is a noun, affect is a verb. You are using the incorrect word in your post. “but it’s not likely to be effected”

As per previous comments alerting you to the error, effect is a noun, affect is a verb. You are using the incorrect word in your post.

]]> By: tylerkaraszewski http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016652 tylerkaraszewski Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016652 It's really kind of annoying to have to switch my VPN connection back and forth between the US and the UK because everyone wants to be all nationalistic with their internet videos. It’s really kind of annoying to have to switch my VPN connection back and forth between the US and the UK because everyone wants to be all nationalistic with their internet videos.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016659 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016659 Maybe you don't need total cell coverage, just enough to evenly "seed" the exposed membranes? Maybe you don’t need total cell coverage, just enough to evenly “seed” the exposed membranes?

]]> By: Digilante http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016662 Digilante Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016662 Looking at all the others who pointed out the error, I must conclude that you're facing the most anal retentive readership of any blog. I think I'm going to go stand in the corner now and hate myself with a whip :-) To others: As for the silly country limitation on the video, just go to youtube, type in the video title, and voila: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5H9Sasq5U Excellent post as usual Maggie. Looking at all the others who pointed out the error, I must conclude that you’re facing the most anal retentive readership of any blog. I think I’m going to go stand in the corner now and hate myself with a whip :-)

To others: As for the silly country limitation on the video, just go to youtube, type in the video title, and voila:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5H9Sasq5U

Excellent post as usual Maggie.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016929 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016929 You should really hyphenate "anal retentive" when used as a modifier.... You should really hyphenate “anal retentive” when used as a modifier….

]]> By: davejenk1ns http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016675 davejenk1ns Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016675 For all you grammar-nazis... xkcd.com/326/ For all you grammar-nazis…
xkcd.com/326/

]]> By: siliconsunset http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016936 siliconsunset Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016936 Cromartie didn't have to kill that scientist after all... Cromartie didn’t have to kill that scientist after all…

]]> By: MadRat http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016938 MadRat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016938 Yeah, sure, Nobel prize level science and everything but Jörg Gerlach has Wolverine hair. Your hair isn't quite Wolverine hair. Yeah, sure, Nobel prize level science and everything but Jörg Gerlach has Wolverine hair. Your hair isn’t quite Wolverine hair.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016941 Brainspore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016941 There's got to be some connection between that hair and improbably accelerated healing ability. There’s got to be some connection between that hair and improbably accelerated healing ability.

]]> By: hadlock http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016949 hadlock Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016949 "Uh, yes, if you want we can use this experimental technique... but first you'll have to sign this 40 page waiver that says if you ever get cancer from this treatment, you won't sue us or the hospital" “Uh, yes, if you want we can use this experimental technique… but first you’ll have to sign this 40 page waiver that says if you ever get cancer from this treatment, you won’t sue us or the hospital”

]]> By: Transit http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/the-skin-gun.html#comment-1016696 Transit Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1016696 Uh guys. I watched the video and while this seems miraculous the video mostly shows video of a completely healed guy and someone's unidentified burned hand. They even mention that this hand is what he might have looked like. I call BS on this! This is not science. Show me the entire process with time stamps thorough out for the same person. Love the concept; not in love with this presentation which seems way too good to be true. $0.02. Uh guys. I watched the video and while this seems miraculous the video mostly shows video of a completely healed guy and someone’s unidentified burned hand. They even mention that this hand is what he might have looked like. I call BS on this! This is not science. Show me the entire process with time stamps thorough out for the same person. Love the concept; not in love with this presentation which seems way too good to be true. $0.02.

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