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- Could this new spinal implant someday help people with paralysis walk? Wed, 14 Jan 15, 12:00amResearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) have made a breakthrough that could someday help paralyzed people walk, run, or even dance again...
- MIT’s FitSocket 3D prints comfortable and affordable prosthetic limbs Wed, 31 Dec 14, 2:00amAs if losing a limb wasn't hard enough for a person, often the task of finding, fitting and affording a prosthetic limb can be almost as excruciating. Enter MIT's FitSocket technology, which uses 3D scanning, 3D printing,...
- 3D printing can create more comfortable and affordable prosthetic limbs Wed, 31 Dec 14, 2:00amAs if losing a limb wasn't hard enough for a person, often the task of finding, fitting and affording a prosthetic limb can be almost as excruciating. With FitSocket, a technology developed by MIT, a better fit is possible...
- PHOTOS: Inhabitat Witnesses the Prosthesis Anti-Robot’s Angry, Stomping Foot Sat, 16 Nov 13, 7:29amA giant, stomping robot foot is pretty difficult to ignore, so Inhabitat really had no choice but to check out eatART's Prosthesis "Anti-Robot" at last week's Engadget Expand...
- Low-Cost 3D-Printed Dextrus Hand Could Transform Amputees’ Lives Wed, 16 Oct 13, 12:00amBritish inventor and robotocist Joel Gibbard has created a durable 3D-printed hand that not only boasts an impressive range of motion, but can be created for a fraction of the cost of conventional carbon fiber and titanium...
- 6 Of The Coolest, Most Innovative 3D-Printed Designs Thu, 8 Aug 13, 4:30am3D-Printed Haptic Feedback Shifter A Ford engineer by the name of Zac Nelson recently took the guts from an Xbox 360 controller, stuffed them into a 3D-printed shift knob casing, and used open-source technology to transform...
- Scientists Create Technology that Could Lead to Lifelike Artificial Skin Wed, 10 Jul 13, 4:30amPhoto via Shutterstock Bionic ears and eyes are already a reality, and with the strides made by a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology led by Professor Hossam Haick, artificial skin may soon become...
- Man Has 75 Percent of His Skull Replaced with a 3D-Printed Implant Sat, 9 Mar 13, 5:00amFeel like you have lost your head? No problem, simply print yourself another. An unnamed man from the US was able to do just that, courtesy of Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) in Connecticut. He had his cranium scanned...
- World’s First Bionic Hand With a Sense of Touch is Set to Be Transplanted Tue, 19 Feb 13, 3:06amAn anonymous man in his 20s who lives in Rome will soon receive a new hand, and for the first time in the world his bionic hand will be able to feel the things that it touches...
- FDA Approves World’s First Bionic Eye: The Second Sight Argus II Sat, 16 Feb 13, 8:30amThe FDA just gave official approval to the world’s first bionic eye! Developed by Second Sight Medical Products, the Argus II is a bionic eye that bypasses damaged rods and cones in the retina...
- World’s First Bionic Eye Could Soon Be Available For Sale in the US Fri, 8 Feb 13, 5:30amFor patients with retinitis pigmentosa, a diagnosis used to mean it was the end of the road for good vision. With the disease, photoreceptors in the eye do not function properly, making it very difficult if not impossible...