Heart Plunging Machine

After one man went into cardiac arrest and his family successfully performed CPR on him with a toilet plunger, Advanced Circulator Systems developed the ResQPump. It’s a machine that regulates chest compressions and airflow during the resuscitation process:

According to a study published in The Lancet this winter, the ResQPump, which is used for chest compressions, and the ResQPOD, which prevents too much air from entering the lungs during CPR, could increase certain cardiac-arrest victims’ chances of survival by 50 percent.

The ResQPump works like a toilet plunger, but while decompressing it can draw air back into the lungs. The ResQPOD, cleared by the FDA in 2003, regulates airflow by creating suction in the chest, which draws blood up into the brain.

Link | Photo: Advanced Circulatory Systems

Previously: CPR Certification at Home with the Nintendo Wii

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Heart Plunging Machine

MSI gets a SteelSeries keyboard, builds the GX780 gaming notebook around it

The worst part about buying a fancy new gaming keyboard? It’s hard to show the thing off if it never leaves your basement apartment. MSI‘s newly announced GX780 notebook combines a colorful backlit 102-key SteelSeries-designed keyboard with the (relative) portability of an 8.6 pound gaming laptop. The keyboard features 1,000 different color combinations, five lighting modes, 10 key simultaneous input, and a layout the company calls “The Golden Triangle” — trademark pending, we’re sure. The 17.3 inch notebook has some solid non-keyboard specs as well, including GeForce GT555M graphics, a second gen Intel Core i7 processor, and an impressive maximum 16GB of DDR3. No word on pricing or availability, but hopefully the MSRP isn’t as colorful as that keyboard. Full press release after the break.

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Authorities ‘cleaning up’ Dafen Village, world capital of cheap oil painting

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Painters paint picture edges black on the roof of a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, China, on April 26, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Jason Lee

Dafen village, a suburb of Shenzhen in China, is believed to be the largest mass producer of oil paintings in the world. But the thousands of artists who rent exterior walls to display and sell the paintings will soon need to find other places to show off their work, as the local government has pledged to ban the practice. Reuters reports that the cleanup is an “effort to brush up the town’s image” before the upcoming Universiade winter sports event.

Artists in Dafen manufacture some 60 percent of the total global trade volume for these reproductions, according to China Daily. Cory visited it himself recently, and published a set of photos on Flickr. Mark wrote about enormous talent of the Dafen village artists in 2008.


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