At 02:59 PM 10/13/2012, neil n wrote: >Well at least they used stainless! Looking at Amazon.com, for $1500-$4000 or so instead of $10 for a single-use stapler they could have had titanium;* so I'm feeling a bit like the poor relation anyway. ;-) Remarkable what's for sale on Amazon... *Oh, all right, I strongly suspect the titanium ones are meant to be left inside forever. I can just see the coming clash between cyborg-medicine and airport security, with fliers having to carry around reams of bumf documenting the serial number and provenance of every non-OEM bit inside them; and real-time updating of all the dampware. Arrgghhh, my pelvis just crashed! :) d |
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