From electrodes implanted in optic nerves giving sight to the blind to electronically advanced arms and hands for the disabled, bionic body parts have come a long way from the fiction of the six million dollar man.
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Tech Tuesday: Bionic Body Parts
Listen Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 at 12:06 p.m. in Tech Tuesday, TechnologyGuests
William Craelius
Associate Professor, Biomedic Engineering, Rutgers University
James Geary
Author, "The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses"
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