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  • University of Utah to help build bionic arm (fully-functioning prosthetic)

    04/21/2006 2:35:33 PM PDT · by Dark Skies · 34 replies · 550+ views
    Eurekalert.org ^ | 4/21/2006 | Staff
    University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthetic arm that would work, feel and look like a real arm. The Utah work is a key part of a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $55 million to develop the new device for soldiers and potentially others whose arms were amputated. "Imagine an artificial arm that moves naturally in response to your thoughts, that allows you to feel both the outside world and your own movements, and that is as strong and graceful as an intact, biological limb," says bioengineer Greg...
  • The Jedi Council I - For my ally is the Force...

    06/22/2005 5:40:10 AM PDT · by Momaw Nadon · 48 replies · 6,175+ views
    Free Republic | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 | Momaw Nadon
    Welcome to The Jedi Council! For my ally is the Force... Verse:For my ally is the Force,and a powerful ally it is.Life creates it, makes it grow.Its energy surrounds us and binds us.Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.You must feel the Force around you.
  • Star Wars III to open Cannes

    02/18/2005 6:18:14 PM PST · by ConservativeTerrapin · 9 replies · 485+ views
    This is London ^ | 02/18/2005 | Baz Bamigboye
    This is LONDON 18/02/05 - Showbiz! section Star Wars III to open Cannes By Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail The Cannes Film Festival is going to the dark side. After months of negotiations between George Lucas and festival officials, Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge Of The Sith will open the festival in the South of France in May. It's hoped that Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, will attend, although he'll be about to open in Michael Grandage's new London stage version of Guys And Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre. It could be a star-packed Cannes this...