Coolest. Thing. EVER.
Sep. 14th, 2005 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Jesse Sullivan, the World's First Bionic Man.
Jesse Sullivan is a 54-year-old ex-lineman who lost both arms in a horrible--and I do mean horrible--electrocution accident. BUT! He is the first person to try out the new, and completely fucking AWEsome, "NECAL" bionic prostheses:
"NECAL uses nerve-muscle grafts in amputees to gain added control signals for an
artificial arm. Doctors take nerves that used to go to the arm and move those
nerves onto chest muscles. The nerves grow into the chest muscles, so when the
patient thinks “close hand,” a portion of his chest muscle contracts
and electrodes that detect this muscle activity tell the computerized arm when
to close the hand. Thus, the patient thinks “close hand” and his artificial
hand closes."
Now, the prostheses are still somewhat limited, but they give Mr. Sullivan a great amount of mobility, control, and even a sense of "touch" to allow him to use his robotic arms and hands with greater dexterity than any other prostheses ever. Three cheers for medical cybernetics!
(Of course...y'all realize that as soon as these things get refined a little more and you can get all kinds of wicked attachments to add to them--like Dremel Moto-tool fingers, USB/flash-storage "fingernails," industrial-strength cutting lasers, and directed EMP generators, for instance--I will saw off my own arms to have them replaced. Then my legs. By the time I'm 60, I fully expect my head to be the last functioning organic part of my body left.)
Jesse Sullivan is a 54-year-old ex-lineman who lost both arms in a horrible--and I do mean horrible--electrocution accident. BUT! He is the first person to try out the new, and completely fucking AWEsome, "NECAL" bionic prostheses:
"NECAL uses nerve-muscle grafts in amputees to gain added control signals for an
artificial arm. Doctors take nerves that used to go to the arm and move those
nerves onto chest muscles. The nerves grow into the chest muscles, so when the
patient thinks “close hand,” a portion of his chest muscle contracts
and electrodes that detect this muscle activity tell the computerized arm when
to close the hand. Thus, the patient thinks “close hand” and his artificial
hand closes."
Now, the prostheses are still somewhat limited, but they give Mr. Sullivan a great amount of mobility, control, and even a sense of "touch" to allow him to use his robotic arms and hands with greater dexterity than any other prostheses ever. Three cheers for medical cybernetics!
(Of course...y'all realize that as soon as these things get refined a little more and you can get all kinds of wicked attachments to add to them--like Dremel Moto-tool fingers, USB/flash-storage "fingernails," industrial-strength cutting lasers, and directed EMP generators, for instance--I will saw off my own arms to have them replaced. Then my legs. By the time I'm 60, I fully expect my head to be the last functioning organic part of my body left.)
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Date: 2005-09-16 01:47 pm (UTC)...when can i get a set of mechanical arms and ... and... can you get them in groups of 4?
SPIDER CAT!!!!
*makes up weird superheroine theme*