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Prosthetic != Bionic.

You know what, Rougy? I agree. Especially since I am unable to grow one.
That's prosthetic, unfortunately>

Would've been funnier if he had prosthetic arms but didn't tell anyone.

"OH NYET!"

Come on kiddies, remember combat is fun and chicks dig guys with prosthetic limbs!

>> ^bamdrew:
Its a skin-surface electromyography setup. You can see the three wires (one being ground) on both sides; same basic setup for controlling motorized prosthetics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography


Cool stuff, wasnt too far off

Its a skin-surface electromyography setup. You can see the three wires (one being ground) on both sides; same basic setup for controlling motorized prosthetics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography

Speaking as the parent of a child with a congenital amputation, based on the many hundreds of amputees I have met at conferences I think it is fair to say that there are many causes of amputation, and stupidity is rarely one them. Among leading the candidates (*not* in order frequency or anything):
1. Congenital amputation
2. Diseases such as a variety of cancers and meningitis
3. Accidents (work place and otherwise)
4. War

There seem to be a lot advances in upper-limb prosthetics just around the corner. I'm sure many of them will never pan out for broader use for one reason or another, but I hope a least a few of these technologies live up to their promise.

Sheesh, the McCain/Palin campaign is really good at using makeup and prosthetic to hide the alien tentacle manipulating her voice box. Kudos!

Pretty cool stuff! There are a number of prosthetic arms that utilize the same sort of chest-muscle sensors for control coming onto the market, as well.

If you were curious about the intro note, this man has 'SCI T8', a spinal cord injury at the level of his 8th vertebrae (which actually results in a 'T12' neurological pathology, where legs and bowels are no longer in controllable communique with the brain).

Sorry to pop the bubble here, but as a "World First" this has already been done, as far back as 2000 [Dr. William Dobelle]. There are many institutions working on this approach to making a prosthetic ocular device.

This one's approach is called a Retinal Implant, but the Dobelle approach (and many others) use a direct Neural Implant (complete with head-socket). They tested the implants/sockets on 9 individuals since the early 1980's and found little to no infection or contra-indications. It afforded a vision of 20/200 in the initial trials and improved up to 20/80 in the later trials. This later approach requires an external camera (likely mounted to a pair of glasses). I believe you can still get this operation done in Portugal.

The former approach of Retinal Implant (JUST like they show here) has been functioning by the Argus Group (USC & John Hopkins) since 2002 and is already approved by the FDA for a second generation trial of 60 individuals.

What puzzles me is why we hear so little about these amazing breakthroughs (years after the fact) and are instead so "up" on 'popular' news to the minute.

"I sleep with my eyes open, if that's the next question."

LOL, how creepy must THAT look, especially if he doesn't have his prosthetics in?

This deserves to be sifted. Happy to move it out of Beggar's Canyon.

Don't forget that we have devices to artificially monitor and maintain a heart beat, devices to breath for you, devices to filter your blood (to an extent), etc.. That said, to keep a head alive on a donor body I'd imagine they'd focus on reconnecting innervation to the new heart, innervation to the new diaphragm, and potentially to a large muscle group that could then be tied through external sensors to operating basic prosthetics. The person would probably live like a C1/C2 quadriplegic, breathing and speaking with the help of a ventilator, using a pacemaker and other devices to monitor and maintain the body. He would also be taking intense immune system inhibitors, since his head would be a giant pile of antigens as far as the body's blood was concerned.

I'm in agreement with chilaxe; Stephen Rose is a bum.

(and I think you mean self-termination, snoodoc)

Things I cannot speak
She comes on like a crippled plaything,
Spine is just a string

I wrapped our love in all this foil,
Silver-tight like spider legs
I never wanted it to ever spoil,
But flies will lay their eggs


Take your hatred out on me,
Make your victim my head
You never ever believed in me,
I am your tourniquet

Prosthetic synthesis with butterfly,
Sealed up with virgin stitch
If it hurts baby please tell me,
Preserve the innocence

I never wanted it to end like this,
But flies will lay their eggs (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm)

What I wanted,
What I needed,
What I got for me...

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mm

Take it out, take it out
Your not fighting me,
I don't believe me!
I never ever believed in me,
I am your tourniquet