Ten Super-Creepy Medical Technologies

We are all for new technologies here, spending our days researching where the science of medicine goes. With that said, every now and then we see something so creepy that it freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist.  So here we collected ten examples of either super creepy medical technologies or ingeniously evil uses of perfectly innocent technologies.  The blood drawing robots First, this doesn’t really sound creepy. Drawing blood might not be our favourite thing, but nothing of a terror for most of us either. Vein scanners are around for a while, actually being a useful little tool to make sure you find good veins with sufficient blood flow. Robots are around hospitals, and the pandemic accelerated their deployment.However, when you put this all together, and the thing looks like this… Even we have to admit, this is flat-out creepy.  Virtually reuniting with our deceased loved ones You probably have heard about this Korean project in which a young mother was able to meet with her deceased daughter in virtual reality. This video is heartbreaking and very disturbing at the same time, raising a number of ethical and emotional questions.  Of course, as many have pointed out, this mother has chosen to participate in this venture, she was not forced to do that. And however upsetting it is, one Korean commenter of the video helped everyone to understand the context of Hyeon-mong – a final farewell.  ...
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