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Posted: 6/23/2005 5:32:41 PM EDT

What do you think?
Is this guy a Bionic Man or a Borg(cyborg)?

Bionic Man

local6.com
Bionic Man Moves Artificial Arm With Brain
Breakthrough Could Change Lives Of Amputees, Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries

POSTED: 12:55 pm EDT June 23, 2005
UPDATED: 4:07 pm EDT June 23, 2005

CHICAGO -- Researchers have developed artificial arms that can be moved as it if they were real limbs, simply by thinking about making them move, according to Local 6 News.

When Jesse Sullivan's brain tells his arm to do something, it's done in seconds.

The world's first bionic man, Jesse Sullivan, 54, accidentally touched live wires while working as a utility lineman in Tennessee. He suffered severe burns, causing him to lose his arms.

Now, Sullivan is the first to try out the most sophisticated artificial arms ever designed.

"So now when Jess thinks, close hand, the impulse is picked up by a transmitter, and goes to his hand," doctor Todd Kuiken said. "He thinks, closes hand and it does."

Sullivan's hand rotates 360 degrees, according to the report. When Sullivan's brain tells his arm to do something, it's done in seconds and he has feeling in the bionic arm.

"This gives me a lot of hope," Sullivan said. "I was an independent kind of guy. I didn't ask anybody for anything. If I could do it, I did it."

Eventually tiny sensors in the fingertips will allow Sullivan to feel texture and temperature.

Doctors at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago said the breakthrough could change the lives of amputees, patients with spinal cord injuries and stroke victims, according to the report.

By the time it's perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report.

For more information on the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Please click www.ric.org.

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I say Borg.

Posted: 6/23/2005 5:36:15 PM EDT

[#1]

I say lucky.

Sgatr15

Posted: 6/23/2005 5:37:00 PM EDT

[#2]

Shit that is wicked cool.

I'd edit out the bottom of the article.

Posted: 6/23/2005 5:42:44 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Shit that is wicked cool.

I'd edit out the bottom of the article.

Fixed it ...

Thanks.

Posted: 6/23/2005 5:51:42 PM EDT

[#4]

Posted: 6/23/2005 6:32:00 PM EDT

[#5]

Yeah, try and get on an airplane!

Jim

Posted: 6/23/2005 6:37:02 PM EDT

[#6]

With a hand that rotates 360 degree. He can get a job as:

Human drill

Glass circle cutter

Bartenter

Jar opener

Posted: 6/23/2005 6:47:23 PM EDT

[#7]

I wonder who will be first in line for a bionic penis.

Posted: 6/23/2005 6:55:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I say lucky.

Sgatr15

Shocks, struts - lucky!

Posted: 6/23/2005 7:12:29 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I wonder who will be first in line for a bionic penis.

Looks like Women seem to like this attachment..

Posted: 6/23/2005 8:00:09 PM EDT

[#10]

A mere Bionic Man (or a step closer to being Darth Vader).

One entity is hardly a collective.

Posted: 6/23/2005 8:01:33 PM EDT

[#11]

Bionic. He doesn't have the technology of a Borg.

Posted: 6/23/2005 10:35:59 PM EDT

[#12]

cybernetic.

Posted: 6/23/2005 10:38:35 PM EDT

[#13]

the bionic man was a cyborg

Posted: 6/23/2005 10:39:52 PM EDT

[#14]

By the time it's perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report.

Sha na na na na na na...

Posted: 6/23/2005 10:41:23 PM EDT

[#15]

Absolutely amazing.

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