Jun 23 2009Don't Squash Me, Bro!: Cockroach Heart May Hold Key To Better Artificial Human Hearts
Sure it may look like an electric motor inside a bocce ball inside a bomb with nipple shields glued on, but it's actually a pump inside a bocce ball inside a bomb with nipple shields glued on. And apparently it's the key to building a better heart.
...while human hearts have four chambers, a cockroach heart uses 13 leaving plenty of redundancy. When a chamber fails in a human heart, you basically have a heart attack and most likely die, while a cockroach can have a chamber fail and barely notice it.
This new Biventricular Pump artificial heart developed at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, uses a multi-chamber design just like those pesky roaches, and designer Sujoy K. Guha says that this vastly improves its long term reliability when compared with more traditional pneumatic designs.
Well alright, I'm all for a better built heart. Especially considering how women are so prone to RIPPING THEM OUT AND TEARING THEM APART. No, really, I'm not bitter.
Indian artificial heart design uses cockroach heart technology [dvice]
Thanks to FDSY, who is helping me build an iron heart.
Reader Comments
1. Cesar - June 23, 2009 1:07 PM
wooo
2. catch22 - June 23, 2009 1:07 PM
side effects may include scurring under the fridge when the lights come on and a rad resistance of 10000
3. Spounz - June 23, 2009 1:09 PM
did they say you might live for 48 hours if you got your head shopped ?
4. Pew³ - June 23, 2009 1:11 PM
That's one BIG cockroach!
5. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 23, 2009 1:21 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rit5dlCpKIo/SdEwZIwc6JI/AAAAAAAAACI/PWb_3rMw2z0/s1600-h/ROBOTS_LOW.jpg
6. Daisy - June 23, 2009 1:23 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max learned Kung Fu just so he could rip the heart out of his enemies, and show it to them still beating in his hand before they die.
7. FDSY - June 23, 2009 1:30 PM
I was so psyched for one of these that I built one in my garage and, with the help of a local homeless man was able to install it.
It's working swell. Except the homeless man can't get over the things he has seen. The terrible, terrible things.
8. STOMPY - June 23, 2009 1:31 PM
Man, I'm totatlly gonna tear out my old outdated heart and shove that bocce ball right in!
By the way... i found naas's kitten....
http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/5/stoned.jpg
9. Pew³ - June 23, 2009 1:35 PM
@8 What a coincidence. I just found Gordon "Fūcking" Shumways cat. Before he ate it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39488895@N02/3632032419/in/set-72157619875045980/
10. Pew³ - June 23, 2009 1:39 PM
And since we're on the subject of people's cat....
This would be my cat. (If they were allowed in my house)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUa53ZPMS50
11. Timbo - June 23, 2009 1:48 PM
So dr's are going to start swapping heart in newborns... Superhumans! Yessss...except I wont be one.
12. Moose Knuckle - June 23, 2009 1:52 PM
Didn't Tito and the Tarantula have a song called "Cucaracha's Corazon"?
If they didn't they should
13. Pew³ - June 23, 2009 2:01 PM
A friend turned me on to Tito and Tarantuala. Great band! I loved their music in "From Dusk Til Dawn".
14. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 23, 2009 2:04 PM
@9
Damn it was tasty too. Pussy pie!
15. Cranky Yuppie - June 23, 2009 2:06 PM
nipples :-)
16. w00t - June 23, 2009 2:13 PM
Interesting...
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com
17. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 23, 2009 2:19 PM
Someone took "Metamorphisis" way too seriously. Hey man, what's bugging you? My heart.
18. Pat - June 23, 2009 2:20 PM
We can rebuild him, faster, stronger...
19. naas - June 23, 2009 2:45 PM
@8 That IS my kitteh....
20. 3.14chan - June 23, 2009 4:15 PM
This reminds me of this manga
http://www.ib4f.com/board/science/geek/topic/83479#83804
21. Watch-303 - June 23, 2009 6:35 PM
go away you stupid 4 chan troll. also what effects will this have on human physiology if the artficial heart has 14 chambers?
22. led panel - June 24, 2009 3:17 AM
wowwww...
23. sobored - June 24, 2009 4:44 AM
@21 that's not actually 4chan it's just some stupid lookalike board. besides if he were a real /b/tard he'd be posting pedobear or something. Aaany ways yea the heart looks interesting I suppose.... even if it does look like someones life would be help in the hands of a ball with suctioned nipples put together with glue.
http://gawdimsobored.mybrute.com
24. Jaded Icon - June 24, 2009 6:54 AM
When I tore GRAMMERNAZI's heart out it looked nothing like this. His was small, shriveled and black as coal........and so was his heart.
I miss you GRAMMERNAZI....
25. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 24, 2009 1:56 PM
GRAMMERNAZI can suck it. formerly SPELLINGNAZI. Now there was a nice fellow.
26. Darth - June 25, 2009 1:04 PM
This is probably the reason why coakroaches are hard to kill.Never noticed?
27. Nero - June 25, 2009 1:10 PM
Each coakroach heart chamber represent a life.They're like cats with 13 lifes.