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* A quadriplegic man in Massachusetts has shown he can change TV channels, turn room lights on and off, open and close a robotic hand and sort through messages in a mock e-mail program.* Seven paralyzed patients near Stuttgart, Germany, have been surfing the Internet and writing letters to friends from their homes.
* At a lab in Switzerland, two healthy volunteers learned to steer a 2-inch, two-wheeled robot -- sort of like a tiny wheelchair -- through a dollhouse-sized floor plan.
Newsday Story [newsday.com]
The story below appeared on the BBC about an hour ago:
Bionic eye for the blind...
It comprises a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear.Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret.
The science of technology is the medicine for the 21st century!
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