Tiny device quickly detects dicky tickers

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Originally published at: Tiny device quickly detects dicky tickers - Boing Boing

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Sorry, but this headline is confusing. I can’t say I’ve ever heard the word “dicky” used in this manner, but maybe I’m just out of touch.

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…don’t even recall Radagast admitting his staff was a bit ‘dicky sometimes’?

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Fair point, but I must have missed that because it was 2 movies too far into The Hobbit and my brain had stopped working long before that scene!

Plus Radagast didn’t seem entirely sane, so any quirks in his word usage didn’t seem out of character.

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Them tickers ain’t tickety-boo.

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English sitcoms.

I don’t know if the term dicky ticker was ever used in real life but it’s totally a stock phrase from old English TV.

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This is basically my post doc work.

Although they did a poor job referencing, since none of the work by the group I worked with (who invented SERS, the nanosphere lithography process, AND the first in vivo SERS).

The idea of using a frequency shift, rather than amplitude is an interesting idea (same advantages in FM vs AM radio), but if I’m going to do that, then I’d just do a regular LSPR absorbance shift, save the money on a Raman rather than regular old spectrometer, and the step of adding that bound reporter molecule.

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I imagine it is derived from rhyming slang (probably Cockney) for sick – Tom and Dick – “I have a dicky belly”, “I have a dicky ticker”.

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Yes, until I reread and ticklers became tickers.

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My grandad did, I just assumed it was one of those things that made sense in the 1930s-40s.

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I googled dicky tickers, it’s used in the UK for heart support groups.

Learn something new everyday.

As someone who’s been told it’s not if but when the next heart attack comes a device like that would be handy because my doctor said my only hope for survival is be near a hospital with an excellent cardiac intervention facility.

My current method is, where are the nitro pills and after the third one I’d better be in an ambulance.

Put me down for the Kickstart pre order.

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Will it detect a tricky truss?

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Lettuce not go there, mmmhkay?

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