Thermonor body temp regulation tubes to be tested by US Navy

Leave it to the contemporary descendants of the Vikings, to come up with a way to help American sailors stay physically afloat longer; Congress has just approved $500,000 for testing of five Norwegian-made "temperature management" units. The firm behind this invention, Thermonor, claims to have built a device that can alter an injured sailor's limb by encasing it in a plastic cylinder to keep the body's temperature high enough to avoid hypothermia and also pressurized enough to control severe bleeding. Still though, Thermonor may want to work on the product's design a little more just so that the patient doesn't feel like they've been turned into a freakish version of Captain Hook.

[matt @ Dec 19th 2006 4:51AM]

Is it just me or does that look like a huge ______ ______?

[artard @ Dec 19th 2006 5:22AM]

Pen0r pump, Yes.

[Eddie @ Dec 19th 2006 5:59AM]

That was my first thought as well... lol

[wes @ Dec 19th 2006 6:47AM]

who cares how it looks?
as long as it saves lifes ;)

[branko.milojic @ Dec 19th 2006 6:48AM]

did anyone see the ressemblance with the broken-arm-fixing-device in "starship troopers"

cool, who got the idea first, the movie maker or the noway lads?

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2006 6:49AM]

"I swear baby, it's not mine!"

[crypt @ Dec 19th 2006 8:05AM]

we are the borg...

[Ken @ Dec 19th 2006 8:27AM]

"I'm a hand model, mama. A finger jockey. We think differently than the face and body boys... we're a different breed."

[Matt B @ Dec 19th 2006 9:49AM]

You either hated or loved Zoolander.... I have not laughed that hard in a long time.

[Dan McNevin @ Dec 19th 2006 8:30AM]

They couldn't have got a hot Korean model to display this instead of hairy shirtless guy, like any other respectable electronics company?

[Phil Fry @ Dec 19th 2006 9:11AM]

So basically they're soaking his arm in warm water while he sleeps... Isn't that how you get someone to pee in their pants ?

[Recalcitrant Iconoclast @ Dec 19th 2006 1:09PM]

Sweet a small Bacta tank?

[mb @ Dec 19th 2006 12:34PM]

It's MegaMan!

[kagai @ Dec 19th 2006 2:28PM]

It's the prototype for the Laserblast laser arm cannon: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/guide/ep706.html

[David @ Dec 19th 2006 3:10PM]

Don't let Dr. Wily catch wind of this.

[Ballog @ Dec 21st 2006 1:46AM]

This reminds me of the pod used for treating wounded Luke Skywalker in Empire Strikes Back