Tag: AMPUTEE

Oscar the cat may have nine lives, but, until recently, he only had two feet. Earlier this year, during one of his ritualized field naps, Oscar had a run-in with a foot-swiping crop harvester, which left him bound to the litter box, unable to roll around with his favorite ball of yarn. After being taken to a local Jersey vet, Oscar was referred to Noel Fitzpatrick, a Surrey-based veterinary ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Peter_Jackson_s_WETA_makes_working_mermaid_tail_for_amputee';New Zealander Nadya Vessey, who lost both of her legs to the knee when she was a child, has just received a prosthesis that's unlike anything we've ever seen, outside of 'Splash'. About two years ago, she approached Weta Workshop, which specializes in design and manufacturing of costumes and special ...

Further hope that victims of paralysis or amputation could one day reclaim some form of motion came this week in the form of a robotically-enhanced, tobacco-chewing moth. The Society for Neuroscience's yearly gathering in San Diego saw a presentation on research in which a tobacco hornworm moth's brain was connected to electrodes and amplifiers at the base of a fairly common kit of robotic ...