Throwing has a dark history with performance enhancing drugs (PED).  It's assumed that many throwers in the 70s and 80s used them.  Now you can't even bring up PED on a throwing forum without a raging argument with the added fun of accusations being thrown around.  But the hatred for stuff like steroids doesn't end with throwers.  With baseball taking center stage with steroid scandals most of America (the world, really) is hating PED users.

So much so we make them play chicken with their career.  If they might be taking a PED and they are high profile we throw them in front of a judge or congress so that either they admit to using which means they lose their fame, future earnings from a lucrative job, and can't compete in the sport they love anymore.

If they don't admit this and are found to be lying, we throw them in a metal box.  Ripping everything previously mentioned away from them and dragging them away from their families because they lied to us.

"He wronged me and deserves to be punished."

Personally, I think putting a baseball player in front of congress is just about the dumbest thing I've ever witnessed.  Bankers rape the country and no one goes to jail.  Marion Jones lied in front of some white people and does.



We are currently in a time where science is devoting their time and energy into enhancing our bodies through chemicals.  Companies are putting billions (if not trillions now) into finding a new drug to do something or other.  This is the direction everything is going currently but it will have to shift, no matter if those corporations in charge want to or not.

Everything ends up heading down the road of technology.  Rather than pricking your finger and taking blood for diabetes testing, you'll wear a contact lens.  Things will become easier and technology will take much of the human error out of medicine.

I had all these ideas of biotechnology and PEDs in my head.  I brought it up on The Ring and someone responded by saying biotech is too far in the future to worry about.  I forgot I was on the internet where we argue semantics rather than theory.

I did some quick research and here's some stuff I found that is in trial or for sale now.

• HUD Eye Contacts
• Contact lens that can show graphics on them.  Imagine being on a football field and the coach is just projecting what you have to do by lines like they do in Madden?  Not only could you completely hide all plays from the defense, you can make detailed last minute changes without hoping the athletes remember a certain play.  

• Stimuheal
• Ever get stim on an injured muscle?  Imagine being able to do that while in the cast rather than waiting for it to come off.  If atrophy couldn't happen then recovery time is cut down dramatically.  Hell some athletes use HGH and Steroids to recover from injures, this could replace (or help to replace) that option. 

• iShoe (jesus christ I'm getting sick of people throw an "i" in front of everything)
• This was a shoe a MIT student developed to help prevent his grandma from falling over so much.  He used the same technology NASA developed to help their astronauts adjust to landing after being a space for a while.  It seems innocent enough but, make it respond quicker, jack the horsepower and it could easily be used to help with quick direction changes.  Those hard cuts, rather than the muscles having to wait to recoil the shoe adjusts and allows you to push off a neutral ankle rather than off the side.  This thing could not only dramatically increase athletic performance it could do wonders preventing knee injures.  

• Smart Pill (everything has to be smart.)
• This one, unlike the other three, is for sale today.  Like most medical stuff you can't just buy it online and install it at home.  What it does is you eat the bad boy and it monitors your GI tract. Up to the minute information on how you body is handling the food you put in it.  If you don't see how important this is for an athlete you probably look similar to me and all you are thinking about is Burger King right now.  No guessing work any more, with this thing and a food journal you can figure out exactly what to eat, at what time, for whatever your desired outcome.  

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