Australian performance artist Stelios Arcadious has implanted ear-shaped cartilage in his arm.
According to boing boing (and all these photos) the ear was grown in a lab using his own cells and an ear-shaped mold. A similar technique was demonstrated back in 1997 when cow cells were used to grow an ear on the back of [...]
Two posts in one day? A disturbing trend to be sure, but I couldn’t resist linking to this Wired post highlighting iWalk’s new propulsive prosthetic foot. After last week’s i-Limb post, I can’t help notice a trend. Perhaps Steven Colbert’s iEye prediction isn’t far off.
There are some major advances taking place in bionics these days (in part due to the Iraq war). Most recently, there’s the i-Limb (I hope Apple doesn’t sue), featured in this cnet article slideshow. The i-Limb costs about $18,000 dollars and is much more human-like than other prosthetic hands. For one it has 5 fingers, [...]