I, for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords

New technology allows for a beatless heart.  Doctors at the Texas Heart Institute have created a heart implant with "a moderate amount of homemade stuff" that operates without a pulse.

Cohn sees this heart as the future. He likens artificial pulsing hearts to flying machines with flapping wings — mimicking nature is not always the best solution for a machine.

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