Posted on 06/23/2005 11:56:43 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
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.
Surgeons attached his arm nerves to healthy muscles in his chest.
Bionic Man Moves Artificial Arm With Brain
"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 Chicago's Rehabilitation Center 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.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
"Now, about your next mission, Steve..." :)
Damn! In my day you could buy 1 arm, 2 legs and a bionic eye for $6 million dollars
this guy is more adapt than the Lefties...
Dean & Durbin, who I like to call Dumb & Dumber, can't even walk and chew gum at the same time! LOL
" the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million"
Just had to be 6 million, didn't it.
WAAANAANANANANANANANNANANANAANANANaanananananananan!!!!
"yawn"
If he was a woman, he'd probably have cleaned the entire house using both arms. Instead he probably used the one brain circuit necessary to operate the TV remote.
"yawn"
If he was a woman, he'd probably have cleaned the entire house using both arms. Instead he probably used the one brain circuit necessary to operate the TV remote.
Nice to know there are no double-posting, smart@$$ feminazi chauvinists on FR...
present company excluded of course.
present company excluded of course.
That's a weird coincidence.
We have the technology...
If he was a woman, he'd probably have cleaned the entire house using both arms. Instead he probably used the one brain circuit necessary to operate the TV remote.
Um...I think TV might be number 2 on his to-do list...er...bionic arm capabilities allowing.....
Awesome!
"Instead he probably used the one brain circuit necessary to operate the TV remote."
Heck, forget the arms...just wire the remote directly into the brain! That way it doesn't get lost in the couch cushions. :)
Good idea! Then he can use his bionic hand to scratch his butt...
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