Thursday, September 14, 2006

World's First Bionic Woman - move over Lindsay Wagner

Claudia Mitchell is the first woman to recieve a thought controlled six-motor prothetic arm. The experimental arm was designed by Todd Kuiken, MD, PhD along with engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. It works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her arm.

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