A new special coating developed by a team of researchers prevents electrical current from damaging the digestive tract after accidental battery ingestion.Every year, nearly 4,000 children go to emergency rooms after swallowing button batteries — the flat, round batteries that power toys, hearing aids, calculators, and many other devices. Ingesting these batteries has severe consequences, including burns that permanently damage the esophagus, tears in the digestive tract, and in some cases, even death.To help prevent such injuries, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a new way to coat batteries with a special material that prevents them from conducting electricity after being swallowed. In animal tests, they found that such batteries did not damage the gastrointestinal (GI) tract at all.
Hmmm...wouldn't this belong in serious I smell something fishy
the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
...Question is, why would they bother? I knew not to swallow batteries when I was three. If somebody dies from it, that's natural selection weeding out the stupid.
I was unaware that people eating batteries was a problem that needed to be solved.
Quote from: Lord Commissar on November 14, 2014, 07:38:42 PMI was unaware that people eating batteries was a problem that needed to be solved.Even if it wasn't, thanks to science it never will be!
Batteries becoming safe to swallow
