http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/The PC is running Windows! It could just crash, get infected or get hacked without notice or warning... and kill the heart!
It could also decide to install updates and then reboot. Or it could decide that a warnign window of a crashing application is more important and give-it full CPU clock.

It's easy to solve thow, just code it again without using .NOT and then place a unix or linux based system running the thing ;)
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Also, NC State sucks. (Go Tech)]]>Jun 3rd 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/

Oh wait... :P]]>Jun 3rd 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 4th 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/

Maus]]>Jun 3rd 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/i'll tell that the doctors finally found her heart, ]]>Jun 3rd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/They could do this with a plastic bag painted red. Maybe it can be useful to study the hydrodynamics inside the heart, but as the pressure is done from the outside and not by the heart walls contracting, I wonder how realistic it can be.]]>Jun 3rd 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/]]>Jun 8th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/
Readers that have completed an undergraduate vertebrate physiology lab will remember using such a rig to learn about the Frank-Starling effect.
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This is like...mouth to mouth, only for a dead heart.]]>Jun 3rd 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/"Help I'm alive, my heart's beating like a hammer..."]]>Jun 3rd 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/
This just isn't that big of a deal.]]>Jun 3rd 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/nc-state-gurus-keep-hearts-beating-outside-of-the-body/Jun 3rd 2009 4:27PM