Jealous much, cutters?
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Thursday May 8th, 2008 @ 5:55 PM
Filed under: Extreme, Video
Badur send me a link to a “plasma blade” cutting tool, what seems like a big improvement on various electrocautery-type cutting tools… Should be amazing for procedures like subincisions…
As you can tell from the screenshot, the video is a little gory (Caitlin says “ewww! what is it!!! is it a baked potato with corn in it!?!?”)*.
(* Caitlin now says “why must you make fun of me?”)
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88 Responses to “Jealous much, cutters?”
oh man, that’s awesome.
ri on May 8th, 2008 at 5:58 pmwow, i dont really understand how it works though!
Mrs_Vincent on May 8th, 2008 at 6:01 pmI have severe cluster-phobia…yes its real so I Couldn’t really watch the video but. I will say this.
What your daughter said made me laugh out loud.
Megan on May 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pmlol “ex vivo human skin” to me that’s spanglish.
Joshmeshuggah on May 8th, 2008 at 6:04 pmhow professional.
Ex vivo is the correct term, its latin not spanish
interesting technology mind
Xarxsis on May 8th, 2008 at 6:12 pmwell maybe it cuts better, but it certainly smell way worse. hmmmmm fresh burning skin…
Pete on May 8th, 2008 at 6:21 pmI don’t think I want to know who/what they’re cutting… I really really, hope it’s not a live animal although I doubt they’d be able to find too many human volunteers for that spot and the skin does look kind of piggy.
freedomhangs on May 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pmhaha the little illustrated picture looks like an electric toothbrush.
pending on May 8th, 2008 at 6:26 pm#7, Pretty sure its human flesh from a cadaver. This is how i would want my tongue split if my lady would let me.
Matt on May 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pmI really need to get myself one of those!
Efix on May 8th, 2008 at 6:40 pmI wonder what the price looks like though….
Efix on May 8th, 2008 at 6:40 pmI couldn’t find the price ANYWHERE. Maybe it’s still in testing phases?
xPUREx on May 8th, 2008 at 6:46 pmThat looks like a smoking piece of kit.. I bet it ain’t within the price-range of the majority of sole mod-practitioners yet though.. Meh.
serenity on May 8th, 2008 at 6:51 pmI need to get me one of those!!
James Wisniewski on May 8th, 2008 at 7:00 pmHere’s a technical brochure on the plasma blade
badur on May 8th, 2008 at 7:08 pmhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/2903542/PeakBrochure
thats pretty much amazing
REVOLT! on May 8th, 2008 at 7:08 pmthat is cadaver tissue cutting….cool tool though
nature223 on May 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pmthe first part is on a cadaver. second part (pink flesh) is on a live pig
badur on May 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pmgetting closer to the lightsaber every day….
kujoton on May 8th, 2008 at 7:25 pmEx vivo human skin means it’s from a cadaver, ie. a dead body of someone who decided to donate his/her body to science.
In vivo porcine model means it’s on a live pig. Before anyone starts moaning and groaning about cruelty and vivisection, I’m 100% sure it’s under anesthesia. In the USA, any organization whether a university, government, or commercial operation that does experiments on vertebrates has an IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) which has to make sure that the researchers are taking care of animal welfare and minimizing pain. They would NOT let this be done on an awake pig.
Xenobiologista on May 8th, 2008 at 7:50 pmIn case anyone’s wondering how I know this…it’s because I learned recently how complicated it is to write an animal use protocol that will make an IACUC happy. Not that I’m some kind of sadist who likes torturing animals either, but when you’re designing an experiment it’s easy to forget a lot of things and the purpose of the IACUC is to make sure scientists pull their socks up in terms of welfare.
Xenobiologista on May 8th, 2008 at 7:54 pmWouldn’t “in vivo porcine” mean living pig tissue? I know the other is a cadaver…. but.
Kelli on May 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pmNeat…Looks like it could take some time to get used to the long cutting section, kinda like choking up on a baseball bat! I would assume its very expensive.
El Verno on May 8th, 2008 at 8:20 pmUgh, it freaked me out every time you saw the edge of the dead persons tissue for some reason.
solocard on May 8th, 2008 at 8:34 pmOkay that was cool!!
Super Muffin on May 8th, 2008 at 8:35 pmIt’s not just corn…it’s CREAMED corn =)
HereKittyKitty on May 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pmi am a surgical technologist, and the plasma blade works wonders. yet its not super popular yet. . .
MissCarla on May 8th, 2008 at 8:53 pmoh and that yummy fat. once on your gloves its sticky and oily and just down right annoying cause it like clings to you… icky and fascinating fun at the same time
MissCarla on May 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pmI sure hope #20 is right about the live pig stuff. Animal experimentations make me want to cry. Strangely enough, things done to people have no effect on me. Nice device.
Furnace on May 8th, 2008 at 8:59 pmMmmmmmm, that’s a lot of fatty tissue.
Jacques on May 8th, 2008 at 9:04 pm#3 I am so confused because i thought clusterphobia was the fear of clusters or crowds what does that have to do with watching a video about cutting some skin open? I’m not trying to be rude or anything but i’m just so confused by that response!!!
Mignon on May 8th, 2008 at 9:20 pmIt’s a pretty cool tool.
Kalinkina on May 8th, 2008 at 9:22 pmWow. I just watched this earlier today on Boing Boing while bored at work. I was pretty much amazed at how much better it performed then other similar surgical instruments. This should be a great thing for the future of medicine.
On the topic of fat; I had the privilege to take a field trip to Baldwin Wallace University when I was a senior in high school. Apparently they are one of the few undergrad programs in the nation that does human dissections. I was in awe of the amount of fat under the skin, of even a relatively slender person. It was never anything like I pictured it to be.
Matt on May 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm“reduced scarring.”
erm.. isn’t it we do cutting for scar unless for Medical issue?
kaesen on May 8th, 2008 at 9:35 pmanyway, awesome tool for cutting..
How do doctors stay sane watching these marketing videos? The soundtrack makes me want to kill. The device itself seems cool … but if I were a doctor, I’d be more impressed by like, Slayer or something. Cutting corpseflesh to a Metal score would definitely make me want to buy a plasma scalpel.
Mark on May 8th, 2008 at 9:40 pmI’m guessing the reduced scarring could be helpful for things like subs and tongue splits, where the desired end result isn’t giant keloids.
Frester on May 8th, 2008 at 10:09 pmAt #35
I love you and you just made my night
Cristal on May 8th, 2008 at 10:11 pmVery sweet.
Sara on May 8th, 2008 at 10:14 pm# 35
sequinsandmorphine on May 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pmyou rock my socks
I would of rather that been a potato with corn and butter in it.
However now I will not look at a baked potato the same…. Uck
Snap Dragon on May 8th, 2008 at 10:57 pmVERY JEALOUS.
Iam: demoiselle on May 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pmexcellent post. you should file it under “education”
brute on May 8th, 2008 at 11:19 pmGoddamn, if I can’t have my tongue split with a laser, I’d like to have it done with one of these. Anybody 100% sure on what the legality of splits is these days in the United States of Anti-Surgical Mods?
Skod on May 8th, 2008 at 11:23 pm#34 kaesen - This is a video marketed to people in the medical field. They don’t want scarring. Shannon posted it because it’s interesting to people with our uses. Besides, it could be used for tongue splitting and stuff where you don’t want much scarring.
Kelli on May 8th, 2008 at 11:53 pmyuck, could not watch it. that was EXACTLY what my ex used to to to himself [ cut till that yellow stuff showed ] **shudder**
candycovered on May 9th, 2008 at 1:40 am@ #5 yeah like i said, “ex-VIVO” to ME is spanglish. so, get your shit together.
Joshmeshuggah on May 9th, 2008 at 1:50 am& i wasn’t being sarcastic when i said “How professional”
You still need a $20-50K electrosurgical generator to be able to use it effectivly without errors.
Sounds very similair to the Force TriVerse pencil. Either way, you are still going to need a $20-50k electrosurgical generator to use it effectivly.
Alyssa Jane on May 9th, 2008 at 2:57 amwell i stuffed that up didnt i!
Alyssa Jane on May 9th, 2008 at 2:58 amI want my tongue split even more now. The scalpel method makes me cringe, though not as much as the electro-cautery.
Andy on May 9th, 2008 at 3:23 am#43 Kelli - oops.. totally forgot about splitting. my mind was just focused on scarification. sorry. =P but still is good news for Medical field and the ad did spoil my lunch..
kaesen on May 9th, 2008 at 3:23 amthe headline on this is blatantly offensive. and i’m not normally one who gets up in arms about such things. self-injury’s not funny. it’s one thing to say “no, i’m not going to put cutter pics behind a link”–i’ve always thought that “triggering” was an overblown concept and that this wasn’t really your responsibility. that doesn’t make it ok to headline a completely unrelated topic with what is, in effect, a taunt to all those who find your treatment of self-injury on this blog to be insensitive at best and criminal at worst (and to be clear–I’m with the “insensitive” people). this is just childish.
AeChei on May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 amThat “yellow stuff” or “corn” is fat, guys. Subcutaneous fat, meaning fat under the skin. That’s obvious.
Laura on May 9th, 2008 at 4:40 amI must have one!
Al on May 9th, 2008 at 4:46 ammmm.. tasty bait, AeChei?
i’m kind of amazed it took 50 comments to get a bite; perhaps those who wish to continually complain about the content of someone else’s blog *they’re* choosing to read have finally done the logical thing and GTFO? bah, who am i kidding…
redeye on May 9th, 2008 at 4:48 am#53 - I assumed that the title referred to the “Jealous cutters” - The surgeons keeping this lovely technology for themselves (By keeping the price high) rather than sharing it with the mod community.
And it looks like a brilliant bit of kit - Let’s hope that the price drops and we see it in use more often…
Ratty on May 9th, 2008 at 6:05 amBut… I’ve cut that deep before and pale pinkish stuff came out.. WHY WASN’T IT YELLOW???
Bambi on May 9th, 2008 at 6:08 amI can’t help but feels ‘cutters’ in this sense refers to people who are into scarification over self harm, so take your silly self righteousness and gtfo noob, ggthxnore.
Maarkaald on May 9th, 2008 at 6:29 amThe term “cutter” is being used in the classic sense of a practitioner specializing in subincisions and other underground pseudosurgical procedures like that, not in the sense of cutting as in scarification or SI. Sheesh.
http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Cutter
Shannon on May 9th, 2008 at 6:39 amNevermind Shannon…..one day you might not have to explain and justify every bleedin’ post
Anamorphic on May 9th, 2008 at 7:32 amdamn, its very beautiful. i like how it cuts!
zagy on May 9th, 2008 at 7:34 amex vevo = dead
bobblue on May 9th, 2008 at 7:46 amso yes, it is a cadaver.
vivo that is
bobblue on May 9th, 2008 at 7:47 ammmm, fat.
Pidge on May 9th, 2008 at 8:26 amLooks so satisfying ^__^ haha
Caspar on May 9th, 2008 at 8:43 amLOL to the spanglish comment.
professionalism is a guise.
coffee on May 9th, 2008 at 9:11 amand so is your judgment.
I’ve called and can’t get through, emailed and had no response. I think the poor buggers are being deluged! I want to know pricing, too.
Andy on May 9th, 2008 at 10:05 amI showed my mom this (shes a surgeon) and she said it was pretty cool the only concern she would have is more scarring because she says sometimes when the cut is too neat it scars more.
Briggitte on May 9th, 2008 at 10:40 ami found that strangely fascinating. i guess i’ve become a little desensitized… *laughs* though i have to admit, the “coldness” of watching a medical infomercial is, i find, more disturbing than looking at the “guess what” pictures that Shannon posts.
i can only imagine the results that the mod community’s more skilled practitioners could turn out if they had access to tools like this.
silvereden on May 9th, 2008 at 10:44 amWow… now that’s a pretty sweet tool. I’d prefer a much more compact version, personally, and I’ll have to check and see if it’s adjustable enough to be used for mild cautery without literally cutting through tissue like butter. Specifically I’m wondering about useability for impants and such.
Human.v2.0 on May 9th, 2008 at 10:47 amBleh. Not even available in the US yet. Probably won’t be commercially avaialble for the better part of a year.
Human.v2.0 on May 9th, 2008 at 10:56 amwow that sounds amazing, especially for tongue splitting!
Alex F2S on May 9th, 2008 at 11:13 amwowsa….
Danielle on May 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pmabsolutely amazing.
now i want my tongue split even more!!
gricher on May 9th, 2008 at 3:03 pmbut i doubt they would be using these in the mod community for a while.
Wow. That is one neat tool. I would like to try that instead of electrocautery branding, to see if the scar would spread less, possibly allowing for more detailed work. Hmmm…
fishywoman on May 9th, 2008 at 3:10 pm# 67, that sounds about right and that’s why I thought “Sweet, highly detailed scar pieces!”. From what I’ve studied in forensics, clean cuts don’t have any ragged pieces that can fit themselves together and start healing that way. I think (honestly I don’t know) that if there are no loose ends the body just has to fill the entire cut in with scar tissue. That would be so freaking awesome. I never thought I’d have the balls for scarification but if someone tests this and it works, I’d be first in line.
MaliceAlice on May 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pmAeChei, he might not mean self-injurers; hemight be referring to underground surgical practicioners.besides, even if he did mean those who SI then it’d be kinda silly because many of the self-injurers i know could careless about depth, and more about relief of emotional stress, which can hoestly come in the form of anything from cat-scratches to the chopping off of limbs. the only i’ve ever known depth to come up is in comparison to other people.
i always wondered does splitting your tongure hurt worse than biting your tongue…ok now i’m just rambling.
Sade on May 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pmhmm, typing doesn’t seem to be with me today:/
Sade on May 9th, 2008 at 4:16 pmLooks like it may be a pipe dream for most artists for now. Got this email back:
Andy,
Yes, our products are on the order of a physician only.
Best,
Andre
Andy on May 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pmSo…uh, when are they coming out with the plasma sword? I know there are still some Star Wars fans out there in the body mod community that have to be thinking what I’m thinking…mwahahaha
MisterBaker on May 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pmawww man,that wud cut a sandwich like nothing else on earth!
Tom For Real on May 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pmno dripping mayo,or chocolate spread for me! NUHHUH!
Ohhhh I want one! This is awesome, can’t wait until they’re more popular/accessible (Did I spell that right?) on the market.
Veronika/ IAM: E-Vomit on May 9th, 2008 at 11:14 pm#29 - #20 is absolutely correct. i used to work in an animal research lab and reviewed dozens of IACUC protocols, plus we had regular IACUC inspections to ensure that they were being followed. just because there is research being performed on animals doesn’t mean they have to suffer. they are sedated for procedures and everything possible is done to minimize pain. if a lab is found to be in violation of protocol, then it will suffer serious consequences.
Sunday on May 9th, 2008 at 11:17 pmI think it may be time for me to stop eating while I’m browsing here
E-Rich on May 10th, 2008 at 12:40 amTongue split is looking better and better now.
Ellie on May 10th, 2008 at 10:29 amWatching that was neat, I’ve seen surgeries in person and that is definitely a neat tool, but the whole background music and calm tone of the presenter was disturbing.
Not cool with the live pig either. Anesthetic or not, i’m 100% against the use of animals for research. A human life shouldn’t be any more important than an animal’s… but, that’s another topic altogether! Moving on…
So, I hear a lot of people saying they want to have this used for tongue splits and everything. I can see that, but my first thought was.. what does it feel like? Yeah, some people will use anesthetic, but obviously a lot WON’T too… so scalpels feel.. sharp, electrocautery is basically burns.. what does this device feel like to a live, awake and non-anesthetized person?
Cool concept, in general.
Antishock on May 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pmEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! i used one of them on a cadaver at uni last week! theyr so much fun! was tempted to do a little slice on ma arm, just to see the amount of pain how it healed.
Ceilidh on May 11th, 2008 at 4:17 amMAMA! i want thise toy!
xwv on May 11th, 2008 at 7:58 amIts human tissue,
Ex vivo (Latin: out of the living) means that which takes place outside an organism. In science, ex vivo refers to experimentation done in or on living tissue in an artificial environment outside the organism. The most common “ex vivo” procedures involve living cells or tissues taken from an organism and cultured in a laboratory apparatus, usually under sterile conditions for a few days or weeks. This allows experimentation under highly controlled conditions impossible in the intact organism, albeit at the expense of looking at the tissue in its “natural” environment. One widely performed ex vivo study is the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay. In this assay, angiogenesis is promoted on the CAM membrane of a chick embryo outside the organism (chicken). Ex vivo studies are usually performed in vitro, although the use of these two terms is not synonymous.
n vivo (Latin: within the living) means that which takes place inside an organism. In science, in vivo refers to experimentation done in or on the living tissue of a whole, living organism as opposed to a partial or dead one or a controlled environment. Animal testing and clinical trials are forms of in vivo research.
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