DailyDirt: Six Million Dollar Man People

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Science fiction about bionics grossly underestimated how much advanced prosthetics actually cost to develop. The Six Million Dollar Man was off by at least a couple orders of magnitude. But bionic limbs have been getting a lot better over the years, and more Paralympic athletes are becoming famous for their achievements all the time. Here are just a few inspiring links about people and technology making awesome advances in bionics. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
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Filed Under: aimee mullins, bionics, exoskeleton, mary archbold, paralympics, prosthetics


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  1. icon
    Michael Long (profile), 25 Oct 2012 @ 5:18pm

    Hey, that was six million in 70's dollars. Inflation, you know.

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    Ophelia Millais (profile), 25 Oct 2012 @ 5:28pm

    Am I the only one here in the habit of closing my browser window the instant I discover that a link I clicked on takes me to a page that automatically starts playing a video? (...like 2 of the 3 stories linked to here)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. icon
    Michael Ho (profile), 25 Oct 2012 @ 5:46pm

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    Hmm. Sorry about that Ophelia. I hate videos that play automatically, too. But I changed my browser settings so that I have to manually allow Flash to run, and that has prevented me from seeing this annoyance....

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 26 Oct 2012 @ 12:24am

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    well that depends, if we have a new president who believes in reagonomics we will have stagflation on necessities and deflation on discretionary items as the top 5% drain the public dry

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    Niall (profile), 26 Oct 2012 @ 2:47am

    One-armed woman

    The BBC's CBeebies (pre-school children's) channel has a presenter called Cerrie Burnell who is missing half of one arm. Many people (including myself) don't notice this for a while, and it is a thing of beauty to watch how deftly she uses her elbow instead of a hand, or makes it really non-obvious, or even 'natural'. Mind you, she's a 'thing of beauty' herself, which might add to the distraction level...

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    Gregg, 26 Oct 2012 @ 7:13am

    Big Pharma companies will shut this down..... no more need for Viagra!

    link to this | view in thread ]


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