We Have the Technology

This is pretty neat. Says TechNewsWorld:

Claudia Mitchell this week became the first woman to be outfitted with a bionic arm developed by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Three men have previously been fitted with the arm, which features neuro-control technology that allows an amputee to move his or her prosthetic arm as if it is a real limb simply by thinking.

Not to make light, of course, but I wonder if it makes that really cool Six Million Dollar Man noise.

And, hey, the article has a quote from my former boss:

"Sometimes there's an interesting convergence between science fiction and reality. Other times there's no similarity," James Cavuoto, editor of Neurotech Reports, told TechNewsWorld. "For quadriplegics, they don't need to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. They just want to be able to comb their own hair and feed themselves again."