Response from: Stef Levolger (Check me out!)

The question though now is, will it truly help? From what I hear from people which have a fear for needles they in generally have gotten this fear because of a "traumatic" experience with needles at a young age. At that time the doctor/nurse/student administring the medicine/vacine had some trouble finding the right vein and therefore had to inject the patient several times. As a child this is not a pleasent experience. Yet now years later those same patients realise that the needle doesn't hurt when they think rational, still they do not find it a pleasent experience to get a needle injected. It will be interesting to see if this type of needle would suddenly remove the fear of needles completely for everyone, but I do think that for the later generation it will prevent a lot of fears from needles if it works out well.