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US: Adidas teams with Pharrell Williams and 'Bionic Yarn'
2014-03-28 12:07:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
German sporting goods giant Adidas is teaming up with designer and musician Pharrell Williams in what the company says is a long-term partnership that will also incorporate 'Bionic Yarn' made from ocean plastic.
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Bionic Hand Gives Amputee Touchy-Feely Sensations
2014-02-06 22:04:56| TechNewsWorld
An amputee was able to feel sensations in a prosthetic hand temporarily wired to nerves in his upper arm. Silvestro Micera, Ph.D., led a team of researchers in testing the bionic hand prototype last year. Dennis Aabo Sorensen, a Danish man who lost his hand in an accident nine years ago, was able to differentiate between the shape and consistency of six different objects.
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Futuristic bionic knee makes SMUD worker feel ‘whole’
2014-01-19 18:08:01| Energy - Topix.net
It took a 40-foot fall to set Jonathan Bik on a collision course with the brave new world of the bionic knee.
New artificial, bionic hands start to get real feelings
2013-12-06 18:45:54| Extremetech
A new prosthesis, designed and built by researchers at Case Western University is now capable of using measurements from 20 sensor points to the control grip force of its digits. Incredibly, the sensor data is linked directly to the sensory nerves in the forearm. The control for the grip closure is then extracted myoelectrically from the muscles in the forearm.
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IBMs bionic computers bleed electronic blood
2013-10-24 17:35:30| Extremetech
Last week at their Zurich lab, IBM gave a media tour to show off some of their latest conceptions. The key to making supermachines 10,000 times more efficient, they say, is to build bionic computers cooled and powered by electronic blood.
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