Eagle wounded by poacher gets new beak, new look

More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers. A team attached an artificial beak to the 15-pound eagle in mid-May, improving her appearance and, more importantly, helping her grasp food.

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The vision of the future seen in bionic contact lens

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Why is the Fed so worried about inflation?

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'Bionic' Cat Eyes May Help Humans

Gingersnap, a 4-year-old Abyssinian, rolled lazily on the examining table while Dr. Kristina Narfstrom rubbed the cat's cinnamon-colored head.

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FDA Panel Recommends Against 'Bionic Eye'

In the 1970s TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man," the strapping young astronaut got a bionic eye. A U.S. company had hoped that next year that might be your grandmother. Not so fast, a federal advisory panel said Friday.

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Here is the world's first bionic Goose. The two-week old gosling was found with a broken leg, but vets did not have the heart to put it down.

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Canadian film maker Rob Spence, who damaged his right eye in a childhood accident, is determined to replace it with a digital camera.

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Believe it or not, IBM has filed for a patent on tech that heightens our reflexes so that we could, theoretically, dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix. This "Bionic Body Armor" would continuously scan the area for incoming projectiles.

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Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, but these days she plays football with her 12-year-old son, and changes diapers and bearhugs children at the three Kiddie Cottage day care centers she owns in Knoxville, Tenn.

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Emerging prosthetic technologies promise not only greater power and flexibility but also pressure-sensitive artificial skin, and even limbs that are bonded to the body and controlled by the mind - and much of this within five years. More Articles

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Video: A man from Naugatuck, Conn., is among those to get the world's first bionic hand. ------ For more video and article on this story: "Man gets bionic hand"

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Not many people walk into a bar and walk out with a new leg. But that's what happened to David Huckvale, 42, who needed a £40,000 bionic leg to walk again.

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Meet the man who was given Britain's first bionic hand on the NHS - and is now learning to fly

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Could anything be cuter than a 17 week old Maltese puppy? How about a Maltese puppy on wheels, thanks to "wizard" and Orthotist David Turnbill, who designed a custom wheeled support using model airplane wheels for a puppy named Hope, who was born with no front legs?

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Upcoming XBLA/PSN title Bionic Commando: Rearmed won't be making its original May drop date.

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Doctors in Australia believe the bionic eye they've created is safer than similar devices developed in other countries.

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It's still awaiting formal clinical trials, but Dean Kamen's so-called "Luke" artificial arm has already gone through its share of tests, which we can now thankfully catch a glimpse of courtesy of a new video from the folks at IEEE Spectrum Online.

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The bionic eye has arrived: engineers have, for the first time, combined a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

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A new contact lens embedded with electronic circuits could be the seed for "bionic eyes" that can see displays overlaid on a person's field of view, researchers say.

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"Our design does not have superhuman strength or capability, but it is closer in terms of function and power to a human arm than any previous prosthetic device that is self-powered and weighs about the same as a natural arm," says Michael Goldfarb, the professor of mechanical …

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The eye's lens normally projects an image onto a curved surface called the retina at the back of the eye. This creates problems for light-sensitive chips since they have to be flat.

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If you've ever wanted to be the Bionic Woman or a Terminator, new research may at least let you see with their eyes. Scientists have taken the first step toward creating digital contact lenses that can zoom in on distant objects and display useful facts.

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Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

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Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs.

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A woman with an artificial arm has been given the sense of touch following a pioneering operation to reroute some of her nerves.

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A cat who was fitted with metal plates in all four legs after surviving two 21ft falls has been dubbed "bionic". Six-year-old Baby fractured her back legs after falling from a window in her south London home in September.

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"Pushing Daisies" got off to a rousing start and the second episode of "Private Practice" overthrew NBC's plummeting "Bionic Woman."

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As she grew up, Adele Fifield was keenly aware that her artificial leg was more than a few steps behind the bionic marvels portrayed in popular science fiction shows.

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LAUREL, Maryland -- Jonathan Kuniholm's right arm terminates in a carbon-fiber sleeve trailing cables connected to a PC. He has no right hand, unless you count the virtual one on a display in front of him.

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