Miles O'Brien shows us how he adapts to living without his left arm
From: PBS Newshour - 02/12/2015
By: Miles O'Brien

"In 2011, I did a piece for the NewsHour called "Bionic Bodies." It was story
with a lot of ambition and many moving parts (literally). It touched on
technology designed to allow paraplegics to walk, deaf people to hear, blind
people to see, and amputees to be fitted with limbs that could match - or
even improve upon - the extremities they’ve lost."

"The report bought into a key notion, that the marriage of biology and
engineering has brought us to the cusp of creating truly bionic individuals -
part human and part machine - who would be endowed with superhuman
capability."  

"Looking back on it now, one year after losing my left arm in a freak
accident, I confess to writing a script that was probably a little too
sanguine about the state of play at the intersection of prosthetics,
robotics, neuroscience, and biology."

Read the entire article and view a video (1:19) at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/learning-ride-drive-live-one-handed/

Links:
Bionic Bodies
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-jan-june11-bionicbodies_06-28/

Can modern prosthetics actually help reclaim the sense of touch?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/can-modern-prosthetics-actually-help-reclaim-sense-touch/

Will a robotic arm ever have the full functionality of a human limb? 
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/will-artificial-arm-ever-full-functionality-human-limb/

Miles O'Brien shows us how he adapts to living without his left arm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/can-modern-prosthetics-actually-help-reclaim-sense-touch/

Submitted by John Van Peborgh & John Van Peborgh