Bionic limbs enable legless man to walk again
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted July 13th 2007 2:02PM
posted July 13th 2007 2:02PM
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Just incredible. Thank you science.
Awesome!
Good on ya for reporting this. Sometimes we need a areminder that all our fanatism about our mobile devices and consol/HD wars matter so little with persective.
Agreed.
woah, I'm Jeremy K. I guess its not that uncommon a name combo, just the first time I've ever seen it....
Oh holy god, that is the creepiest thing I've ever seen.
but seriously. that is cool. but they really need to find a different color for the cup apparatus that his torso sits in.
I don't understand, 60% of his lower-body is gone? No penis or anything?!
But, yes, another miracle thanks to technology! I bet he must be extremely happy to walk on his own!
Hopefully for him the 40% of his lower body that is left IS his penis.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I got lowest ranked?
Well, I hope I didn't upset anyone. It was a honest question, ffs!
Stupid liberals.
nice sneakers.
haha..I have the exact same pair of shoes
Pimpin' kicks brohan
ditto, owe me a coke.
This beats E3 coverage all to hell. Thank you for that!
Am i the only one who thought he resembled a mii from wii bowling?
Are his bionic legs being controlled by his central nervous system? If so that is pretty damn impressive!
lol good shout, i was gonna say he looks like a Mii
For year's he's been bedridden? Don't they have wheelchairs in China?
that was my immediate thought when i read that.
In communist China the chair wheels YOU!
I just read that he was bedridden for TWELVE (12) YEARS!!! That's unbelievable!
Obviously we don't know the whole story, but as long as his wounds were healed down there, I don't see why he couldn't have used a wheelchair, as many of you guys have pointed out... Something smells fishy in China.
I wonder if he can pull a rickshaw while wearing this gear... :p
He can't sit on his own for 12 years, so he can't SIT on a wheelchair, ok? Now with the help of doctors, he could sit on his own three months ago. And now, he could "walk" by the new technology...
I see, you guys can't show your pities on a miserable man.
wheels are more reliable than these legs, aren't they?
I think they owe some royalties to Humma Kavula
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/hitchhikers-history-22.jpg
lol
"ingenious device?"
No. It doesn't even have a revolutionary multi-touch screen!
Instead of what appears to be a really limited use device they should have just bought him an iBot, the not-a-wheelchair wheelchair-like ;) device he's invented. That would elevate the guy to proper standing height when used on two wheels, and would leave his hands free to do something else rather than hang on to handles in front of him.
It's great that he's getting help with mobility, but those "bionic" "legs" look pretty silly for day-to-day use.
Of course, that wouldn't have allowed China to use the poor guy as some sort of public relations spectacle... but maybe I'm overly cynical.
Oops.
I really meant to write "Dean Kamen" where I wrote "he has invented", but I guess a synapse or two fired in the wrong direction. My bad.
or...... they could have just put him on top of a Segway...
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I second the Segway idea.
To improve upon that, there could be two "sets" of segway bottoms, and it could do a wheely to be on only one set so that it is tall like a normal person, and the wheel sets could rotate over eachother so he could go up stairs and stuff. I think that there's some robot that does that or something similar to that, at least.
It's the GI Joe action figure, the Bionic Man! But this guy is cooler because the Bionic Man was from the 70's, not the 60's, which was the best decade for GI Joes. Sorry if it's a bit off-topic, I love vintage GI Joes.
Whether or not you believe in hell does not determine its existence.
You beat me to it Alex... amazing how people live in their own imaginary worlds that they create themselves.
yeah but can he play doom?
I literally lol'd at that comment.
Gadgets can be split into two categories - Can play Doom, or cannot play Doom.
Actually I think hes IN doom...
http://iddqd.ru/pic/kartinki/doom4.jpg
Holy crap, I, too, lol'd HARD at this comment.
He probably still gets more action than me.
hopefully a world with hell is the one you refer to as imaginary.
looks like he's sporting a pair of Adidas Race-Lo
Wow, that's pretty wild.
I love how PC everyone is being too, and rating down people who aren't PC, reminds me of basic cable.
Couldn't they have made them a bit, y'know, LONGER?
Ha, Look at the look on his face! That is so cool. This is the best thing I've seen all day.
Seriously...
screw what this contraption does/doesnn't do, just look at how freakin happy he is!
That, by far, is the funkiest cyborg I've seen yet. I wanted to give him dap as soon as I saw this picture.
Big ups to Peng Shulin!
Just prop him on top of a large rc car... or maybe even fit his little egg cup thing onto a toddlers ride on toy.
Serously though, this is pretty cool.
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man...."
Steve Austin ain't got nothing on Peng Shulin! I'm glad that the human spirit continues to carry the strength and imagination to aid those less fortunate a better quality of life. I proudly salute you.
more like:
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.. but do to budget cuts we can only afford $129.78 .."
That's cool. He looks really happy.
But the very first thing I thought of was Mr Potato Head. If I saw him walking down the street I would probably giggle to myself. But not in a bad way, you know the way you giggle about funny things other peoples kids do.