I'm not recommending you sit and watch the entire premier episode of the Bionic Woman; I was less than enthused to begin with, but my boyfriend convinced me it was worth watching--at least for my health and fitness blog. Well, he had a point--I now want to have the power to run as fast as cars, jump from roofs and generally kick butt.
There was a line in the episode where the boyfriend of the bionic woman (who happened to be the one to replace both her legs, an arm, an eye, etc. after a horrific accident) states that science and medicine are more advanced than we'd like to admit, and science fiction is becoming reality. I know it's TV, and TV isn't real, but I wonder how close we're getting. Will our TV shows one day become reality?
Orlando-based Hanger Labs creates prosthetics that, while they don't afford people superhuman powers, allow them to regain normal activity after losing a limb. Orlando's WESH 2 story followed Janet Bombard, who lost part of her arm in a car accident; Rob Smith who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident; and Jose Lema, a police officer who was injured in the line of duty and lost his left foot. The Hanger Lab's prosthetic is the first created by private funding in the world.
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