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World's First Bionic Man
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http://www.local6.com/news/4643968/detail.html

Bionic Man Moves Artificial Arm With Brain
Breakthrough Could Change Lives Of Amputees, Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries

POSTED: 12:55 pm EDT June 23, 2005
UPDATED: 4:07 pm EDT June 23, 2005

CHICAGO -- 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.

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When Jesse Sullivan's brain tells his arm to do something, it's done in seconds.

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 the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 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.

For more information on the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Please click www.ric.org.


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Kumbayah my lord, Kumbayah...

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Re: World's First Bionic Man [Re: Drink_Punk_Soda]
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sweeet!


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Re: World's First Bionic Man [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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HELLA_TIGHT said:
sweeet!



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Re: World's First Bionic Man [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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Poor guy can finally polish the bishop again. I bet it feels like "The Stranger".

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Re: World's First Bionic Man [Re: Adden]
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:lol:


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Re: World's First Bionic Man [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
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So he's the real Six Million Dollar Man!!!

I'm so glad I got to make that joke first!

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Re: World's First Bionic Man [Re: dr0mni]
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Posthumanism rocks.

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