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Wired
July 2001
Evan Ratliff |
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...   |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Marlowe Hood |
Born to Run Could an 18-year-old double amputee perched on a pair of carbon-fiber springs have an edge over able-bodied athletes? Leading experts were surveyed, and the answers are as different as they are surprising. |
Wired
March 2007
Josh McHugh |
Blade Runner His legs were amputated when he was a year old. Now Oscar Pistorius is on track to make the South African Olympic team. Is he an engineering marvel or just one hell of a sprinter? |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Jonathan Kuniholm |
Open Arms What prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowd-sourcing, and the video-game industry |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Sally Adee |
Winner: The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized Darpa's prosthetic arm gives amputees new hope |
National Defense
May 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
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
June 24, 2012
Jake Rossen |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2005
Marlowe Hood |
Running Against The Wind A double-leg amputee and his high-tech prosthetics are blazing a trail into able-bodied sports. Will they be welcomed? |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Sarah Adee |
Dean Kamen's Luke Arm Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials DARPA may decide the fate of Dean Kamen's next-generation prosthetic arm. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Sarah Adee |
Re-Engineering the Prosthetic-Arm Socket To create the next generation of prosthetic arms, Dean Kamen had to reinvent the prosthetic socket. |
Outside
October 2009
Jill Davis |
Suspension of Disbelief Most people who lose a leg dream of walking again. For adaptive athlete Jarem Frye, the inventor of a spring-loaded prosthetic knee transforming the lives of amputees, that wasn't nearly enough. He wanted to do 180s on the snow. |
Wired
September 2000
Andrew Tilin |
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
March 2008
Sally Adee |
A "Manhattan Project" for the Next Generation of Bionic Arms Johns Hopkins researchers lead a nationwide effort to make a bionic arm that wires directly into the brain to let amputees regain motor control and feeling. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
Sarah Adee |
Artificial Arm Researchers Restore Feeling of Missing Limb New knowledge will let amputees control and feel with robotic arms. |
National Defense
April 2012
Eric Beidel |
Prosthetic Arm Controlled by Brain Wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently used a new prosthetic arm that they can control with their thoughts. |
PC Magazine
June 6, 2008
Eric Griffith |
Seven Technologies That Will Touch Your Life The future will be a feast for the senses, with breakthroughs that enhance computers' ability to hear, see, and even smell for us. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009 |
Slideshow: The $71.2 Million Arm The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending at least US $71.2 million to reinvent prosthetic arms from the ground up. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Sally Adee |
For those without hands, there's Air Guitar Hero DARPA project repurposes Guitar Hero to train amputees to use artificial arms |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Erik Sofge |
DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic In a first for prosthetics, a new mechanical arm gives its user the sense of touch. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Lance Ulanoff |
Biomechatronic Man Faster, better, stronger: It's not just for television anymore. |
AskMen.com
Ryan Murphy |
Talking Points: Canseco's Boxing & More The Chicago Bulls' unlikely postseason victory... Jose Canseco's fledging boxing career... Oscar Pistorius' pursuit of Olympic gold... |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Mike Brown |
Special Report: Biomaterials revolution Materials for biomedical applications in the 21st century are big business, with researchers developing advanced plastics for implants and carbon fibre for prosthetic limbs - materials that are much stronger, lighter and more durable. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2005
Logan Ward |
Breakthrough Awards 2005 A salute to the innovators who are shaping the world's future through science and technology... New products that represent benchmarks of engineering. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
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." |
