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• Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses? [Aimee Mullins]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  I think technology has evolved enough to let us be earnest about the fact that a consumer of a prosthetic is the same consumer buying an iPod or glasses or a couch for their house. You want options....
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• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
      Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn’t fundamentally changed More here: Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]
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• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasnt fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative. A light,...
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• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 461
  Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn’t fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative. A light, 2.5lb exoskeleton, the Freedom Leg moves all of your body weight from your injured foot to the prosthesis frame ...
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• Prosthetic Legs Aren’t Better Than the Real Thing… Yet

  
  80beats — Authority: 654
  South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius raised a ruckus last summer when the he wanted to qualify for the Beijing Olympics, thanks to the J-shaped carbon fiber blades that the double-amputee uses to run. Pistorius didn’t get to run in last summer’s games, but now an MIT team has released a study declaring that he ...
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• SmartHand Gives Feeling to Prosthetics

  
  DeviceTalk — Authority: 125
  With funding from the European Union, researchers have developed an artificial hand that allows amputees to feel objects that they’re holding as well as pressure on the hand. The SmartHand has sensors that detect tactile information, which makes the product different from other prosthetic hands, according to Fredrik ...
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• Military Medical Technologies Month in November – The Future of Medicine Is Integrated Healthcare

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The US military is making November a target month for awareness and education on what breakthroughs are happening in medicine and how it will affect not only their lives, but families as well.  Integration – they get it.   This is a great effort and we need this for non military US citizens too.   ...
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• The Smart Hand – One That Can Feel

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This is a prototype, but the fact that nerve endings can be connected to a device is amazing to connect with signals from the brain.  BD    London, England (CNN) -- Researchers are working on a breakthrough in artificial limb technology -- a prosthetic hand that can actually feel. The SmartHand ...
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• Toddler Gets a Telescoping, Prosthetic Arm Bone That Grows With Him

  
  80beats — Authority: 654
  When 3-year-old Mark Blinder developed pain in his right arm, doctors diagnosed him with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone tumor . Chemotherapy wasn’t working and radiation would have destroyed the growth plates in his bones. So instead of amputating the arm, doctors tried an experimental approach–implanting ...
  5 days ago

• Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do not have an unfair advantage

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from competing against able-bodied runners in the Olympics because the authorities were concerned that his prosthetics might give him an unfair advantage? Well, it turns out that the authorities guessed ...
  6 days ago

• Another study weighs in on amputee runners

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 686
  Ever since South African double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius expressed a desire to compete against runners with intact legs, its sparked the interest of researchers who are trying to determine if running prosthetics provide an advantage. The latest findings come in a study recently published in the journal ...
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• Calf Gets Prosthetic Legs

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 529
  Here’s the heartwarming story of the day: Nancy Dickenson and her stepdaughter, Martha, found Meadow on a neighbor’s property. The 11-month-old calf had lost her back hooves and half of her ears to severe frostbite. [...] Doctors amputated a portion of Meadow’s hind legs in August and fitted her with the ...
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• Calf Gets Prosthetic Legs

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Nancy Dickenson of Ocate, New Mexico and her stepdaughter Martha found an 11-month-old calf on a neighbor’s ranch that was suffering from severe frostbite. The black angus heifer had lost the use of her back legs and hooves. What to do? Obviously, the answer is to give her prosthetic legs! The Dickensons have ...
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• Bionic Arm – The Top Invention from the Pentagon!

  
  Scientific, embedded, biomedical, electronics contents. — Authority: 119
  Living in the 21 st century, there’s nothing to be more pathetic and scary, especially if you living in the countries, which the war is happening nearly every second! According to the statistic, nearly 20 percent of the Americans soldiers that fighting in the battlefield in Afghanistan, Iraq and much more are ...
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• 14. The Bionic Hand - Best Inventions of 2008

  
  Today's Top Voted Bookmarks — Authority: 151
  14. The Bionic Hand - Best Inventions of 2008 Get ready Centennial Man - Step by step mankind inches toward the perfect robot. The worlds first commercially available bionic hand took many hands many years to develop. Created by Touch Bionics, its multi-articulating, meaning each finger has its own motor. ...
  2 weeks ago

• For Helen’s 86 Year-Old Sister

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 142
  Speaking of chutzpah… and if we weren’t, we are now… a lady named Helen recently wrote in asking if I could help her find a pattern for knitted breasts for her 86 year-old sister.  That’s right, knitted breasts. For her 86 year-old sister. Helen wrote:  “My sister who is 86 has breast cancer and is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Future Gets Closer, Part II

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Practical gene therapy treatment emerges . Prosthetics that feel . Circumventing paralysis with brain implants .
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• Optogenetics: the key to our cyborg future?

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  There’s a lengthy but interesting piece up over at Wired about the relatively young discipline of optogenetics – the science of isolating and communicating with specific types of neuron using light . The discovery of the process is an interesting story in its own right, but the really futurismic bit is the ...
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• First prosthetic hand connected directly to nerve endings

  
  grinding.be — Authority: 472
  Via BotJunkie comes the video a lot of people have been waiting a long time to see; an actual, functional cyborg hand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85Lpuczy3E
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• Now, broken knees can be mended by growing cartilage from stem cells

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): People who have damaged their knee joints can get them repaired with new cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, according to a study at the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering.Already, professor Kyriacos Athanasiou and his colleagues used adult stem cells from bone marrow ...
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