You know that smoking is bad for your health. However, scientists have just shed additional light on how those toxic chemicals can wreck your body. A newly published study has determined that a pack-a-day smoker typically produces 333 DNA mutations p...
A team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed a research system that can smoke cigarettes. The gatling gun style system has a mechanical element that can light and puff cigarettes to get the smoke. Surprisingly this system is not named Patty or Selma.
The machine simulates how smoke affects humans by passing smoke through a custom designed “airway-on-a-chip.” The plan is that this system will lead to a better understanding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and also won’t kill any lab rats along the way. The team published their work in an article in the journal Cell Systems.
You can check out the cigarette smoking machine in action in the video clip below:
I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to the day when machines become addicted to cigarettes and get winded trying to hunt us down.
[via IEEE Spectrum via Laughing Squid]
Throughout all his adventures, Sherlock Holmes’ iconic pipe is perhaps the most memorable recurring element. It’s also the inspiration for cigar pipe maker Peterson of Dublin’s popular Sherlock Holmes Series loved by pipe smokers.
To commemorate their 150th anniversary, designer Jong Hyuk Bae developed this next-gen pipe that’s perfect for today! An abstraction of elegant pipes of the past, this vaporizer’s form takes a modern twist that sleek and minimal. Sherlock Holmes is also well-known for his iconic deerstalker hunting cap. The hat’s character lines fall smoothly from the top to the brim of the cap and the designer applied this iconic shape to the design.
The led indicator on the bowl interacts to the inhalation of the pipe, making a swirl of light just like the original pipe. This essential design element gives vapers to feel the analog sentiments of original pipes.
Designer: Jong Hyuk Bae
