So elsewhere I've been toying with some data gathering devices and I had some interesting thoughts.

Let's cut the scope down. Let's say ... oh hell, I'll spare you the suspense, mystery, and border-line-trolling dramatic flair. The salesman angle is stupid because I'm not selling anything and it's just an ego wank.

Strap this device to an arm and a leg. It puts IVs into the return veins.

With these IVs you can read blood sugar and oxygen (and CO2) content continuously, pass-through pump pushing it through a sampler using refractive analysis. Also a probe tip can measure you internal temperature, but that's not entirely important: a wrap around the chest, neck, arms, and legs can supply temperature regulation and metering.

An artificial anti-respirator in the core device can convert atmospheric CO2 and water vapor (or, really, supplied water from a canister) into glucose via electrosynthesis (photosynthesis essentially works by stripping an electron from a chlorine atom on chlorophyll and using it to bind C and H2O, releasing O2 stripped from CO2). For a lighter and less power hungry version, supplying a glucose canister is possible; for extended use (i.e. when you're not on a bike race where your cyber-parts get serviced in the pit), relying on recharge and bio-generation (i.e. food, you eat and you pedal and you generate electricity to recharge the cells) may make more sense, depending on use case.

An artificial respirator also captures the O2 from the anti-respirator, as well as from the atmosphere, and stores it. This may be unnecessary, if exposure to atmosphere is sufficient for the respirator in action.

Under high stress, the device will read a drop in blood oxygen levels (i.e. as you pass VO2[max] and can't saturate any further. In these conditions it will introduce more oxygen into the blood via artificial respiration.

When blood sugar levels drop and stress levels are high--higher temperature, for example--the device may also introduce a small amount of glucose and/or ATP directly into the blood to increase available energy. Due to the increased thermal output, the device would also reduce the localized temperature by cooling at the carotid arteries, the torso (from the back), arms, and legs.

The device would also automatically measure cortizol levels after boost. Withdraw symptoms may occur from suddenly lowering the oxygen and glucose levels; the device would have to lower its support gradually, monitoring for correlated cortizol increases and compensating by slowing the decline of support level, preventing unpleasant withdraw.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next generation of tool assisted speedrun cycling: cybernetic cyclists with minimal bio-chemistry support systems to keep them running in top condition under high load--beyond what their physical bodies can supply. It's the next natural step after ice socks.

I don't see any problems with this.........

Cool idea, bro. Market it under $1000 and I'm in.

I read it but thought I was in an intensive care unit - not a bicycling forum!

I'd like to have a continuous readout of blood sugar.

If it can deliver micro doses of epo, then it will sell like crazy.