Video: PBS Reports On Bionic Limb Development

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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011


It’s hard to keep up with all the developments in the bionics and cybernetics worlds: so many universities and private institutions are working on so many projects that by the time you report one, another has leapfrogged it. PBS News Hour has put together a nice little survey of the current tech, interviewing Dean Kamen and a number of other inventors and researchers in the field. Feeling out of date? Watch away.

The full transcript can be found here if you don’t feel like watching, though it’s really great to see some of this stuff in action.

[via BoingBoing]