Segway Inventor Patents A Gadget That Sucks Food Directly Out Through A Port In Your Stomach

Eat anything you want, then remove some of it before it's digested. This is the good news about a recently-patented gadget that sucks food out of the stomach: it could work as a last-ditch effort to get obese people to shed some weight. This is the bad news about said gadget: the method might be a little extreme. AspireAssist, created by Segway inventor Dean Kamen and a team of bariatricians, works like this. A valve gets surgically implanted in the user's stomach, and the gadget sends a tube th...