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In short:

A mechanical heart has been implanted in a New South Wales man who was experiencing severe heart failure.

He has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with the titanium heart.

What's next?

Doctors say the invention will likely be an alternative for donor heart transplants in the future.

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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully it can just run off wall power while at home. It would suck to change in the middle of each night.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

God the fear of accidentally sleeping through the alarm would probably keep me from sleeping at all

"When you hear the beeping you need to swap out the battery because if you don't you'll die. Goodnight."

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't that the plot from Crank 2 (kind of)?

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] edwardbear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

CHEV FUCKING CHELIOS

I was obsessed. Had the Nokia 8800 (he had sirrocco, but I was poor af). Had the same ring tone. What a movie

[–] electric@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Memories awoken.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 hours ago

At least if that happens, you'll simply sleep for the rest of your life.