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[I lover science! The one thing I would add is that the tech advances that make these sorts of inventions possible came from the free market. That’s why we can all afford smart phones and computers. Get the government out of medical stuff and these sorts of things could be more widely available.]Future Transhumanist Tech May Soon Change The Definition Of DisabilityBy Zoltan Istvan Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, who lost both his...

Thanks to Kalam, he can now fight, standing Jaya Menon Posted online: Saturday, May 05, 2007 Tamil Nadu bus conductor lost his legs in an accident, a letter to Kalam on experiment led to new lease of life Chennai, May 4: For P Thangamarimuthu (38), both of whose legs were amputated after an accident more than three years ago, it’s virtually a fresh lease of life. And the person who gave him new hope was none other than President A P J Abdul Kalam. The two had never met before. But Thangamarimuthu, formerly a conductor in a government transport bus,...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second time in three months, a 16-year-old California girl who lost a leg in an accident has had her artificial limbs stolen. Melissa Huff, an Arcadia High School student who uses a $16,000 prosthetic limb to play softball for the school team and another one, valued at $12,000, for everyday use, said both were taken from her bedroom Tuesday. "I was picking up my little brother from school when my mom called me and asked where I left the two prosthetic legs," Huff, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City, told...

Click Picture for Video image: Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. Brain PowerFor the first time, a paralyzed man with an experimental brain implant bypassed his damaged spine to manipulate an artificial limb and a computer program using only his imagination. This ScienCentral News video has more.Movin' on His MindAmericans celebrate their freedom every year on the same day that Matthew Nagle lost almost all of his. As Fourth of July fireworks flashed over Wessagussett Beach in Weymouth, Massachusetts nearly four years ago, Nagle found himself in a sea of flying fists and within minutes, Nicholas Cirignano, a man with a...

BRAIN-CONTROLLED PROSTHETICS IN FUTUREFeb 12, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby Michael J. RossResearchers are making tremendous progress in developing artificial limbs that can be controlled by the brain activity of people wearing those limbs. These devices utilize what is known as a "brain-computer interface" (BCI), of which there are two varieties: An individual's neuronal activity measurements can be detected using "single-unit recording", in which each electrode is implanted adjacent to an individual brain cell. Alternatively, the brain activity can be measured using electroencephalography (EEG), in which electrodes are attached to the patient's scalp, to measure aggregate signals. It is expected that within...