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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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  • Edited by Dick VanDick: 12/12/2013 9:01:04 PM
    I 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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