Miscellaneous

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Man sees with 'bionic eye'

Published on Aug 26, 2011

A man who lost an eye in a shooting accident has been turned into an 'eyeborg', after doctors fitted a tiny camera into his eye socket.

 

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Article "How haptics can enhance bionic eyes"
Using haptics to improve outcomes for people given visual prosthetics

May 3, 2013

 

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Article "I-Limb Ultra Revolution App Lets Amputees Program Own Bionic Hands"

May 4, 2013

 

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Handsmith: changing an industry, and lives, with 3D printed prosthetics

Published on Jan 5, 2017

By day, Lyman Connor works as a software engineer at General Electric. By night, he builds 3D printed custom prosthetic hands. With a small facility of four desktop 3D printers, Lyman has just fit his first patient and moved into production.

"3D Printing Powered Startup Manufactures Affordable Custom Prosthetics"

January 5, 2017

 

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Article "Man Given Eight-Inch Bionic Penis After Losing Use Of Genitals In An Accident"

by Jonathan O'Callaghan
August 24, 2015

 

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[video=vimeo;82503972]http://vimeo.com/82503972[/video]

US Bionics: I am not the robot
December 22, 2013

 

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This bionic arm has vision

Published on May 5, 2017

Researchers at Newcastle University are developing a prosthetic arm with a camera built into it, so the arm can see objects and pick them up in an appropriate manner automatically.

"Researchers develop 'seeing' bionic hand with 99p camera"
An amputee describes the device - which bypasses the usual prosthetic limb gripping process - as a "huge leap forward".

by Alexander J Martin
May 5, 2017