Sea Turtle to Get Prosthetic Limbs

An injured loggerhead sea turtle is getting more than rest and rehabilitation in Japan. The turtle, Yu, will  be fitted with prosthetic fins after a vicious shark attack that left her injured.Yu was rescued...

Hacking Guitar Hero for Disabled Gamers... for Science!

Can you play Guitar Hero if your arms have been amputated? The answer, thanks to Johns Hopkins researchers, is a hard-rocking "yes".Okay, maybe the overall point of the experiment wasn't to play Guitar Hero, but it sure is a great test bed for electrical stimuli and haptic...

Amputee barred from Olympics

First women ski jumpers, and now this.  Although, to be fair, if the prosthetics for his legs give him an unfair advantage, I can understand the decision.  What do others think?"LONDON — Track and...

Rocket Powered False Arm Developed

This new prosthetic arm while making me think of Steve Austin the bionic man of the 1970s hit TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man" does not give the user super human strength. Public release from Vanderbilt University " Rocket-powered mechanical arm could...

"Fastest Man on No Legs": Double Amputee Just Misses Olympic Berth

Update: This chapter in Oscar Pistorius' Olympic story does not end happily, but the future is still bright for this super-determined athlete."On Wednesday, the athlete, nicknamed the "Blade Runner", ran his...

"Fastest Man on No Legs": Double Amputee Eyes Olympic Gold

The twist here is that Oscar Pistorius is seeking a berth in the Beijing  Summer Games in 2008, and not its cousin, the Paralympics. He faces obstacles beyond the physical though, as Olympic officials disagree over the "advantage" Pistorius' artificial limbs...

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