Nanotech Will Enable You to Hold Your Breath for Up to 4 Hours
May 30 2008 / by Alvis Brigis / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Technology Year: Beyond Rating: 7 Hot
At the recent Low-Volume Manufacturers Association
conference, Boris Fritz, a senior engineer technical specialist at
Northrop
Grumman, said he expects nanotechnology in our lifetime to
enable small devices called respirocytes
that permit us to hold our breath for up to 4 hours.
“What you do is replace about 10% of your blood with these respirocytes and then you would have literally 4 hours where you can hold your breath,” lays out Fritz, “So if you had a problem with your heart stopping you could just leisurely call the hospital and tell them ‘Well, i’ve had a heart attack, my heart is stopped’.”
Or another option, as Fritz points out, is that “you could go scuba diving without any gear.”
Check out the full Fritz interview by Dean Rotbart, Director of the Low-Volume Manufacturers Association, here. (Would have embedded the vid, but the youtube code is buggy.) (cont.)
