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Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth
I picked this up off the CNN website.
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 legs communicate to each other so that the knees and ankles work in a coordinated fashion. 2 of 2 Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly associated with hands-free cell phones. "They're the latest and greatest," Bleill said, referring to his groundbreaking artificial legs. Bleill, 30, is one of two Iraq war veterans, both double leg amputees, to use the Bluetooth prosthetics. Computer chips in each leg send signals to motors in the artificial joints so the knees and ankles move in a coordinated fashion Bluetooth Legs
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Amazing and fascinating what technology can do for people
 
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That sounds incredible. Should be out on the NHS in 30 years then
 ww1, ww2, vietnam and the current US oil wars in the middle east have advanced the world of prosthetic limbs out of nescessity, it's a shame so many young soldiers have to be blown up for these advances to become so important 
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