Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth
From: CNN.com - 01/25/2008
By: Larry Shaughnessy

Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a
bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006.
He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together. 

... 

Bleill's set of prosthetics have Bluetooth receivers strapped to the ankle
area. The Bluetooth device on each leg tells the other leg what it's doing,
how it's moving, whether walking, standing or climbing steps, for example. 

"They mimic each other, so for stride length, for amount of force coming up,
going uphill, downhill and such, they can vary speed and then to stop them
again," Bleill told CNN from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he's
undergoing rehab.  

Read the entire article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/25/bluetooth.legs/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/25/bluetooth.legs/?iref=mpstoryview

Interview Video:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/25/bluetooth.legs/?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCVideo

Links:
MarForRes Marine strives to walk again
http://www.marforres.usmc.mil/Archive/2007.03/Bleill.html

Submitted by Mike Paciello