Bionic Woman
 

This is the first of a new movement in medicine, completely artificial robotic replacements for failed or amutated body parts. And what more fitting start than the very first neuralmoterprosthetic to be installed on a patient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCN9L6ApU4

The video is a little misleading, commenting that she has to flex her chest muscles to make the arm move, but they have basically re-routed the nerves from her arm and grounded them so that she has the sensation of contracting a muscle (helps greatly with the learning curve for her augmentation). They have also greatly reduced the capabilities of the arm I'm saddened to say, I guess they want to start her with limited capabilities and work her into more complicated motions such as digit control. The future begins now.

The good people at www.howstuffworks.com released an explanation of the process involved. It fills in the holes from the news report nicely.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/bionic-arm.htm

I wonder how long it will be before they can bypass the muscles and send the signals into a microprocessor, to operate the motors?

Smart move picking a biker chick for the procedure. :thumb: