prostheses

The advent of a blood-powered fuel-cell, intended for use in implanted prostheses, is a real cyberpunkian turn of affairs, rips for plot-twists regardign vampiric blood-farms powering illicit banks of icebreakers and the like.

Boing Boing: May 8, 2005 - May 14, 2005 Archives 2005

While the algorithm is unifying, it is not universal: the algorithm consolidates multiple avenues of development in prostheses, but it isn’t the final and only approach these researchers expect to see in the years to come.

MIT Research Helps Convert Brain Signals Into Action | Impact Lab 2007

Provides care to patients with partial or total absence of limb by planning fabrication of, writing specifications for, and fitting devices known as prostheses under guidance of and in consultation with physician.

Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998

The Stealth Hippopotamus: We already have "prostheses" to make people more attractive

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

It is more likely to inform the treatments of the future than to become one—making more precise the deep brain stimulation used on Parkinson's patients, for instance, or creating "neural prostheses" after brain injury.

Lighting Up Our Mental Ills Holly Finn 2011

REACH TO RECOVERY, home-visit program for mastectomy and lumpectomy patients, sponsored by the American Cancer Society; temporary prostheses, exercise instruction and encouragement.

Loudoun and Fauquier health calendar Post 2010

Mr. Spell, who is a double amputee due to complications from diabetes, nevertheless remains active with the help of prostheses.

More Options Before Bypass Surgery, Study Finds Ron Winslow 2011

I will continue reading actual books until they tear them from my cold, malfunctioning 2063-era robot prostheses.

The worst part about the Borders bankruptcy Alexandra Petri 2011

On Aug. 1, 2009, while out on his last patrol before returning home to Denmark, the 25-year-old soldier was injured by a roadside bomb in Helmand province, Afghanistan, as a result of which he had both legs amputated above the knee, and now wears prostheses.

War Wounds and Tutus Natalia Rachlin 2011

In 2008, Pistorius was banned by track's international governing body the IAAF, which said that his J-shaped prostheses gave him an unfair advantage over able-bodied sprinters because their energy return was found to be three times higher than a human ankle joint at top speed and therefore required less effort.

The Blade Runner's Olympic Quest Aimee Berg 2011