Prosthetic Arm w/ Brain Control

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http://www.local6.com/news/4643968/detail.html

CHICAGO -- Researchers have developed artificial arms that can be moved as it if they were real limbs, simply by thinking about making them move, according to Local 6 News.

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When Jesse Sullivan's brain tells his arm to do something, it's done in seconds.

The world's first bionic man, Jesse Sullivan, 54, accidentally touched live wires while working as a utility lineman in Tennessee. He suffered severe burns, causing him to lose his arms.

Now, Sullivan is the first to try out the most sophisticated artificial arms ever designed.

Surgeons attached his arm nerves to healthy muscles in his chest.

"So now when Jess thinks, close hand, the impulse is picked up by a transmitter, and goes to his hand," doctor Todd Kuiken said. "He thinks, closes hand and it does."

Sullivan's hand rotates 360 degrees, according to the report. When Sullivan's brain tells his arm to do something, it's done in seconds and he has feeling in the bionic arm.

"This gives me a lot of hope," Sullivan said. "I was an independent kind of guy. I didn't ask anybody for anything. If I could do it, I did it."

Eventually tiny sensors in the fingertips will allow Sullivan to feel texture and temperature.

Doctors at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago said the breakthrough could change the lives of amputees, patients with spinal cord injuries and stroke victims, according to the report.

By the time it's perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report.

For more information on the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Please click http://www.ric.org.

[Winnow]

Sullivan's hand rotates 360 degrees, according to the report.

exorcist hand!

[Aslanna]

By the time it's perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report.

Talk about inflation.. In the 70s you could get a whole bionic man for $6 million!

[Tinkin Tankem]

I want to know what it does when he thinks about masturbation. This whole mind reading arm is a little creepy to me. Yet, at the same time it's amazing. Didn't we have something about this a few months back where they were hooking things up to people and they would perform simple things by picking up on different pulses to the brain? Or something similar. I'm just curious was that the same people or is this a different group?

[Sionistic]

Story Update!

Jesse Sullivan has died of a heart attack. Doctors believe the attack was caused by excessive stimulation. "The guy couldnt stop that damn arm from jacking him off" remarked one rescue aid worker.