"We're not saving babies here..." - Fat-busting ultrasound tech

[Robb]

A method using ultrasound to break up flab attracts big investors (Seattle Times)

Want to get rid of those chubby hips or love handles, but without the effort of dieting or the discomfort of liposuction?

It sounds like a late-night TV huckster's pitch, but a local engineer believes he is two to three years away from delivering a pain-free ultrasonic fat buster. No surgery, no Atkins, no exercise. Just walk in the doctor's office for a one-hour scan, go back to work that afternoon and watch the fat fade away the next six weeks.

It's still way too early to declare a quick fix to the American problem with body image. But some of Silicon Valley's savviest investors in medical devices are now betting $27 million on a Bothell company called Liposonix that's developing the technology.

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[KurtNYC]

1. plastic surgery joke

When two people in California get married, how do they know what the baby will look like?

{rhetorical}