DYK the speculum hasn’t changed since the 1800s?
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Netherlands researchers redesign vaginal speculum to ease discomfort
Cold, rigid, and metallic – it’s not a medieval torture device, but the vaginal speculum, a tool used daily in gynecological exams worldwide and often linked to discomfort and fear. Two engineers at…
France 24 (www.france24.com)
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@anna_lillith
The handle may have received less attention than the blades? -
DYK the speculum hasn’t changed since the 1800s? Now, women engineers built something softer, safer, smarter.
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Netherlands researchers redesign vaginal speculum to ease discomfort
Cold, rigid, and metallic – it’s not a medieval torture device, but the vaginal speculum, a tool used daily in gynecological exams worldwide and often linked to discomfort and fear. Two engineers at…
France 24 (www.france24.com)
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@anna_lillith
I hate that thing can’t even look at it -
@anna_lillith
I hate that thing can’t even look at it@Paleva absolutely. Just to see it gives me anxiety and tension
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DYK the speculum hasn’t changed since the 1800s? Now, women engineers built something softer, safer, smarter.
@anna_lillith yay.
Mammograms and Pap smears are just torture devices for women. -
@falken @JohnJBurnsIII @anna_lillith
I would not put a design out and tell people to print it at home because that environment is probably not clinically sterile and the materials or equipment they choose could be contaminated with - or simply made from - things that are harmful to put inside the human body.For the same reason, you shouldn't drink from a printed cup
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@falken @JohnJBurnsIII @anna_lillith
I would not put a design out and tell people to print it at home because that environment is probably not clinically sterile and the materials or equipment they choose could be contaminated with - or simply made from - things that are harmful to put inside the human body.For the same reason, you shouldn't drink from a printed cup
Agreed:
@RnDangerI've only seen others do 3-d printing. I have not done design for 3-d printing...
But I know that I would be worried about the torque involved and how the plastic threads are melted and laid down - that I would be concerned with cracks/breakage while in operation and that leading to extremely painful lacerations.
The tool needs to be solid and not fail during use.
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DYK the speculum hasn’t changed since the 1800s? Now, women engineers built something softer, safer, smarter.
@anna_lillith Na endlich!
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DYK the speculum hasn’t changed since the 1800s? Now, women engineers built something softer, safer, smarter.
@anna_lillith so necessity *is* the mother of invention.
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@falken @JohnJBurnsIII @anna_lillith
I would not put a design out and tell people to print it at home because that environment is probably not clinically sterile and the materials or equipment they choose could be contaminated with - or simply made from - things that are harmful to put inside the human body.For the same reason, you shouldn't drink from a printed cup
@RnDanger @falken @JohnJBurnsIII @anna_lillith
Many things that are put in women's bodies are not sterile. A penis, for example. -
DYK the speculum hasn’t changed since the 1800s? Now, women engineers built something softer, safer, smarter.
@anna_lillith Oh, gut. Das ist ja auch für den Arsch.
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