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12/12/2013 6:01:34 PM
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Bionic limbs are now a thing
[quote][url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/11/soldier-controls-bionic-arm-using-power-of-thought]A soldier whose arm was blown off by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan has become the first person in the UK to master a prosthetic limb controlled by thought.
Corporal Andrew Garthwaite, 26, has spent two years learning how to move the arm and grip objects after a six-hour operation to have the limb wired into his body at a medical facility in Vienna.[/url][/quote]
It's not exactly super advanced, and the aesthetics leave much to be desired, but it's a thing and has potential to become something great. Now people who have lost limbs are finally able reclaim some of what they lost, and maybe there'll come a day where cybernetic limbs are superior to our own flesh. How do you guys feel about this? Would you ever voluntarily replace your arm if a day came where cybernetic arms were better?
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Kat from Halo: Reach?
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4 RepliesRead this as "Blonic Limbs" :/
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just wait another 10 or so years when technology becomes even more advanced (assuming we don't kill eachother until then)
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3 RepliesEdited by Jim the Admin: 12/12/2013 9:49:58 PMOne step closer to Deus Ex style bionic enhancements. I can't wait till they open the first L.I.M.B. Clinic.
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I never asked for this.
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2 RepliesWas anyone else thinking of Bionic Commando, or just me? Anyways, I wouldn't replace my limb unless I needed to. So, no, I wouldn't replace it voluntarily, but I'd replace a limb if needed.
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I was just looking at bionic limbs the other day.
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1 ReplyEdited by Progo: 12/12/2013 6:58:16 PM[quote]The operation involved rewiring some of Garthwaite's nerves so that nerve fibres that once controlled his arm and hand movements instead [b]hooked up to his chest muscles.[/b] Electrodes placed on his chest pick up the muscle movements and convert them into signals that direct the prosthetic limb.[/quote] It's not truly thought controlled, it's more of a puppet. A truly mind controlled one would either take directions, or use the nerves from the lost limb. Still cool, but this is very old news in the medical community.
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My future is approaching...
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1 ReplyCan I get a bionic middle finger?
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Edited by Dick VanDick: 12/12/2013 9:01:04 PMI bet within the next umm... 20-30 years from now? Yeah. I bet prosthetic limbs could turn out to be practical. Like for human enhancement. Hell in that time we might even develop practical bio. engineering. But in my life time I bet you good money if the world dosnt end in some kind of fall of humanity There are going to be Mechanical and Bio. Enhanced humans. Won't that be some freaky shit.
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5 RepliesIts cOLD in here.
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2 Replieshttp://frockwriter.com/2011/11/paul-de-gelder-navy-diver-shark-attack-survivor-smoking-hot-swimwear-model
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Poor -blam!-er no longer poor
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Edited by Legend To None: 12/12/2013 7:20:38 PMOh ya I remember learning about that experiment few years ago. They were testing out these bionic gloves and people were picking up cups with em just by thinking about it.
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10 RepliesT...they named a country after me?
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7 RepliesI don't know why prosthetics are skin-coloured. It just looks kind of creepy. Why not embrace your cool robotic limb for what it is?
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1 ReplyI read that as [quote]Blonic limbs...[/quote]
