Friday

Making Drugs From Your Printer

Inkjet, laserjet…drugjet? Microsoft says it may not be long before your printer can spit out prescription medications.

The IDG News Service reported the prediction by a top executive at a speech in Indonesia today.

The so-called “drugstore-in-a-box” would let you play pharmacist and put various ingredients into your printer. Then, presto chango! Push a button, wait a minute, and you’ve got your dose — in the boldest and brightest colors available.

The exec also talked about the possibility of a cell phone that could diagnose you by your breath. He said you’d blow into it, like a breathalyzer, and get an analysis of your troubles. You’d then take those results into a clinic, where — I’m not making this up — he says a computerized nurse would print out a sheet of tablets that you’d “peel…off like mailing labels” and “dissolve into [your] mouth.”

Local pranksters may or may not have spiked this man’s morning coffee with LSD.

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