First Woman With Bionic Arm

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:47 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091302271.html?nav=rss_email/components

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:40 pm

rock on!

TheInfiniteMonkey · Post by **TheInfiniteMonkey** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:34 pm

But I would have had them build the sound effects into it...

http://4wheeldrive.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=4wheeldrive&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leemajors.co.uk%2FMedia%2Faudio%2Fbionicjump.wav

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:40 pm

sounds like they'll be building a lot of things into it. tacticle sensors, etc - i'm just hoping that they don't make the fatal mistake of opening the neuro-servo communication to the world, so to speak.

think someone taking over or screwing over your computer is bad? imagine someone hacking your limbs.

beside all that, i think it's a cool idea, and even cooler that darpa helped fund it. i just hope people don't fuck it up. as long as they keep is a closed system, it's as safe as anything else ever is.

footprintzinthesand · Post by **footprintzinthesand** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:01 pm

I heard recently that some device is out that enabled a blind woman to see.... Dunno if it's old news or not, but that's damn cool...