The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.
But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free.
The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. “It’s sort of like a laser beam,” project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots.
Hmm…. That does seem like a good solution for the needle-phobics like myself, but from that description it sounds just as scary to me.
I’d be willing to give it a shot, since one of the biggest parts of the phobia for me is some metal instrument physically entering a vein, and the sensation of that under your skin. This sounds pretty awesome
(via darkkaomi)
