Syndaver: A $95K animatronic cadaver that's replacing med-school corpses
by Cory Doctorow from on (#35DK3)
The Syndaver is a super-realistic robotic human corpse simulator with replaceable viscera that med students can dissect again and again, freeing them to use the donated bodies of people who willed their remains to science for med school pranks, like sneaking them into the alumni dinner in a tuxedo. (more")