“Liquid breathing” from The Abyss. Do not try this at home.

Remember in James Cameron’s movie The Abyss, where Ed Harris’ character was put into that funky diving suit which got filled with “breathing fluid” and he had to respirate through the liquid in order to survive a deep, deep dive?

(Incidentally, that was in 1989 and at the time it wasn’t far from reality.  The mouse from the earlier scene that the fluid is demonstrated on?  That was not a special effect folks!  The mouse was actually breathing with that stuff!)

How about one better than that?  Say… put a needle in your arm and shoot yourself up with breathable oxygen?

Research scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital have come up with a neat trick and it could revolutionize much of modern medicine: a nanoparticle which can be injected into a person and provide enough oxygen to maintain ...