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AskMen.com
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Oscar Pistorius' Advantage As the 25-year-old "Blade Runner" prepares to make one last run at qualifying for the 2012 South African Olympic sprint team, there is no consensus on whether he's the feel-good story of the season or an ominous sign of things to come. |
Fast Company
February 2010
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Bionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prosheses You'll Envy Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy. |
Wired
July 2001
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Born to Run Microchips promise to make artificial legs as good as new. Fast-forward amputees are remaking life and limb on their own. The race is on... |
AskMen.com
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Oscar Pistorius Double-leg amputee Oscar Pistorius lives by the motto "you're not disabled by the disabilities you have; you are able by the abilities you have." |
Wired
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Ready, Set, Mutate! International jock police should forget about controlling technology's impact on sports. It's the 21st century - let the augmentations begin. We've compiled a cutting-edge athlete's duffel of techno-enhanced clothing, equipment, and drugs that will help the world's athletes mine gold... |
IEEE Spectrum
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National Defense
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Casualties of War Leading research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is aimed at helping soldiers who lost limbs in combat. At the core of this program are new technologies meant to seamlessly fuse prosthetics with the human body. |
AskMen.com
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Talking Points: Canseco's Boxing & More The Chicago Bulls' unlikely postseason victory... Jose Canseco's fledging boxing career... Oscar Pistorius' pursuit of Olympic gold... |
IEEE Spectrum
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Open Arms What prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowd-sourcing, and the video-game industry |
Outside
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The Guide: Beijing Olympics 2008 The 15 things you must know about this year's Olympics in Beijing. |
CRM
January 2010
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Superhuman CRM This month's special report on innovation may have a bit of an emphasis on the inhuman machine, but we still know the single-most important part of technology is the user interface. What happens when the user becomes the interface? |
