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Dad Uses 3D Printing To Create A Bionic Arm For His Son
3D Printing As you might imagine, there is quite a significant waiting list to receive a bionic prosthetic limb. They are, after all, rather tricky to make and, in the nicest way possible, the demand is outstripping the supply. A father in the UK, however, when told his son had…
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Man Who Received a Double Hand Transplant Writes Letter of Thanks to Doctors
The first person to have a double hand transplant has written a letter of thanks to the doctors who made it possible. Chris King, the recipient of the transplant, is now able to write letters, hold a cup of tea and form a fist. Things he thought would be impossible…
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Bionic Goggles Could Give Sight to the Blind
UK regulators have given the go-ahead to trial a revolutionary new technology that could give people who have lost their sight due to retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Usher syndrome, cone-rod dystrophy, and choroideremia their sight back. IRIS II, developed by French technology firm Pixium Vision, is a head-mounted visor that processes…
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New Bionic Lens Could Give You Three Times 20/20 Vision
A bionic lens, developed by a Canadian optometrist, could give any seeing person vision that it three times better than 20/20. Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia, has developed the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, a permanent implant that can give super-vision to anyone over the age of 25, “no matter…
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Artificial Skin with a Sense Of Touch Being Developed
The technology behind prosthetic limbs has dramatically evolved over time for the benefit of assisting individuals who have had the misfortune of losing a limb. The next step forward to that is a coined Bionic limb that gives the user something akin to natural human skin. This realization looks to…
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How Much Would It Cost To Build a Bionic You?
Well this is an interesting start to an article, in a world where machines are fast evolving with the aim of becoming the new humans of choice, what would be the theoretical financial cost if you either quite fancied a bionic body double, or have decided to take a career…
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Science Fiction Reality With Mind Controlled Bionic Hand
Ian Burkhart became paralysed after a swimming accident, but may now benefit from modern medical science as he has become the first person to benefit from a mind controlled bionic hand. The bionic device is controller using a microchip that was inserted into his brain and the first tests left him…
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Bionic Hand Connected To Man’s Nerves Returns Sense Of Touch
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute in Lausanne and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy have reported that a bionic hand has been successfully wired into the nerves of a man’s amputated arm, allow him to feel sensations of touch in real-time via the prosthetic! “The sensory feedback was…
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