This Week in Devices [8/2/2013] : The Illusive Male Contraceptive

By contrast, the choices for male contraception are far more limited: it’s either sterilisation (a vasectomy) or condoms. Vasectomy has been used since the late 19th century, while the condom has an even longer linage.

 

Barnaby Jack was one of the most influential hackers in the world, and his influence is still felt in the medical device space. Scheduled to speak at this week’s Black Hat security conference, Jack planned on delivering a talk called "Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Human" at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, which would detail a pacemaker hack he had discovered. 
 

If you don't have access to a university hospital and want to get a magnet implanted in your finger, the best place to visit is a tattoo, piercing, or body modification shop, where an artist will place a subdermal magnet into your finger—likely using ice instead of anesthetic for legal reasons.

 

“For every 10 of these great new progresses, maybe one actually becomes commercially available,” Ghovanloo says. The rest stall out in the so-called valley of death—the period between a technology’s genesis and when it becomes commercially available.