Bionic (Hu)Man: The Future of Robotic Prosthetics?
From: Robotics Trends - 06/19/2013

Bertolt Meyer's amazing bionic hand controlled by an iPhone app is a glimpse
of the advances being made in prosthetics. But in years to come, will
everyone want one?

Since appearing in the Channel 4 documentary "How to Build a Bionic Man", in
which he allowed engineers to build a robotic replica of the rest of his body
complete with artificial heart, lungs and an alarming prosthetic likeness of
his face, Meyer has become something of a poster boy for "transhumanism".
Encompassing everything from robotic limbs to memory-enhancing neural
implants to gene therapies that slow ageing, transhumanism (or posthumanism)
concerns the technologies and drugs that are rapidly altering the limits of
human performance, as well as notions about what we might look like in future.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.roboticstrends.com/service_healthcare/article/bionic_human_the_future_of_robotic_prosthetics

Links:
Bertolt Meyer
http://www.touchbionics.com/patientsfamilies/patient-stories/bertolt-meyer/

Bertolt Meyer shows us his bionic arm (video 5:36)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktMclRORBg

Million-dollar bionic man with working heart, pair of lungs, and human face
  (with video 0:47) 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bionic-man-with-working-heart-pair-1587539

How to Build a Bionic Man (video 47:06)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QVvy1NUq0

Bionic Man Shows Off Advanced Prosthetics (with video 1:16)
http://www.deskeng.com/edge/2013/10/bionic-man-shows-off-advanced-prosthetics/

The Incredible Bionic Man
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/3378516/the-incredible-bionic-man

The Incredible Bionic Man (video 46:00)
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/3378516/the-incredible-bionic-man#video

Bionic Bodies
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/3378516/the-incredible-bionic-man#bionic-bodies

The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body 
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/The-Insane-and-Exciting-Future-of-the-Bionic-Body-220574691.html

Top Five Bionic Pets (with video 23:01)
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/series/808/the-bionic-vet/137860/mayo-and-oscar#images

Bionic Man Shows What’s Humanly Possible With Artificial Medical Technology
http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=270180

Related:
Building a Better Human 
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=270585