digital

あ。すごい見落とし。既出の直腸刺激でしゃっくりが止まる話（コチラ）だけど、"Digital"は"analog"に対してのデジタルではなく、「指先の」と言う意味のdigitalですね。てことは、今度しゃっくりでたら自分でも容易にできる訳ですね。以下は渦中の受賞者Fesmire医師のコメント。

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/05/ignobels.ap/index.html
"I'm a serious guy, and something I wrote in 1987 is coming back to haunt me," said Fesmire, an emergency physician and director of the emergency heart center at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Fesmire, who stresses he is a real doctor who "someday wishes to truly be remembered for my cardiac research," tried the technique for the first and last time nearly 20 years ago. He knew that the technique could be used to slow a rapid heartbeat by stimulating the vagus nerve. The same nerve, when stimulated, can stop hiccups. "I saw this patient who couldn't stop his hiccups. I tried these other maneuvers, and then I stuck my finger in his bottom," Fesmire said, emphasizing that it was the treatment of last resort. "Will I ever do it again? No!"
『ボクは真面目な人間なんですよ。1987年に書いたものに今さらつきまとわれるとは。いつか、本業の心臓病の研究で名を残したい。（直腸刺激が迷走神経を刺激し心拍を下げる働きがあることを知っており、迷走神経への刺激がしゃっくりを止める可能性があることも知っていたので）他のいろんな方法を試した後に、最後の最後に指を肛門に入れてみたんだ。もう一回やるかって？いや、やらないね。』