The 3 Million $ Woman
May. 5th, 2010 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraThe thing with the "Future" is that it's creeping so slowly upon us that we don't even notice a science fiction becomes everyday life. Maybe it's because we were taught to expect flying cars and jumpsuits. But I thing cyborgs are good enough.
Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident and she was fitted with new robotic arm from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. This new arm is "myoelectric," which means it picks up electrical signals coming straight from her brain. Her nerves were surgically rerouted to the chest and the arm electrodes pick them up and send them to the prosthesis computer, which figures out which motion Mitchell is thinking about. The rerouting causes some weird sensations but she gets a pretty functional arm:
Cyborgs are among us.
Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident and she was fitted with new robotic arm from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. This new arm is "myoelectric," which means it picks up electrical signals coming straight from her brain. Her nerves were surgically rerouted to the chest and the arm electrodes pick them up and send them to the prosthesis computer, which figures out which motion Mitchell is thinking about. The rerouting causes some weird sensations but she gets a pretty functional arm:
Cyborgs are among us.
