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wildcat2030:

Scientists have built a man from artificial limbs, and while he might not be a bionic superhero, he cost a lot less to create than The Six Million Dollar Man. One million dollar Rex – short for robotic exoskeletons – was built using the most advanced artificial limbs and organs from across the world. And he shows that from bionic arms and legs to artificial organs, science is beginning to catch up with science fiction in the race to replace body parts with man-made alternatives. In the 70s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man astronaut Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors, was left horribly injured after his craft crashed and was given a bionic arm and legs and an artificial zoom-lens eye. 6ft Rex also raises ethical dilemmas, as research on advanced prosthetic arms and legs, as well as artificial eyes, hearts, lungs - and even hybrids between computer chips and living brains - means that scientists can not only replace body parts but may even be able to improve on human abilities. This has led scientists to warn against creating a modern Frankenstein. (via Scientists build the One Million Dollar man - Telegraph)

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lohrien:

Illustrations by Catrin Welz-Stein

HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THIS

triplecanopy:

Richard Mosse, “Platon,” North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2012.

Artist Richard Mosse will represent Ireland at the 2013 Venice Bienniale. Read Mary Walling Blackburn on Mosse in “The Flash Made Flesh,” published in Triple Canopy Issue 11: Walling Blackburn writes: Mosse “disorders the aesthetics of conflict. None of these civilians and soldiers, ensnared in a decades-long civil conflict, really dwell in the camps of fuchsia woods and salmon-colored grasses. What ethical dimension does the visual suspension of the real take?”

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