/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/liquid-heart-cardiac-pump-made-of-steel-uses-ferrofluid-to-mimic-heartbeatFerrofluid based heart pump (screen-capture via suprocktech.com) Imagine, someone&#39;s life may be saved by swapping in a &quot;liquid heart.&quot; Science fiction to reality in a year? An engineering team, led by Christopher Suprock, from Suprock Techn...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/liquid-heart-cardiac-pump-made-of-steel-uses-ferrofluid-to-mimic-heartbeatFri, 22 Jun 2012 19:34:31 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:25912d16-b46b-4334-a0f8-c04c0b375e1eDAB1<p>An interesting approach, but such a device would need a lot of engineering before it would be considered safe enough for real use.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If he could demonstrate actually fluid pumping for a few years without failure, he might get funding, but it still has a lot of issues to resolve.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just my opinion,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14049&AppID=45&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">