Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

As I gear up for Hip Replacement #2, my sister sent this funny comic to me.  I heard that something like a million joint replacements ar...

Don't know exactly what it is about this little robot guy, but I really liked it.  The simplicity of the body and limbs joined by ...

So surgery was yesterday around 11 am. I was asleep under anesthesia before I ever even got to the operating room, so can't remember...

A mother wrote in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about the miracle of Cochlear Implants. Lydia Denworth described when her 2-year ...

I love the direction DARPA is going in with robotic exoskeletons for our warfighters.  Helping soldiers perform their jobs easier,...

Usually when we talk about the dangers of cyber attacks, we are concerned with the dangers of someone stealing, spying, or systematic...

Wow, prosthetics have come a long way--these are tough! This video from Biodapt shows their high-performance Moto Knee being used in a v...

Berkeley Bionics (now Ekso Bionics ) has done miracles here in helping the disabled to walk again.  Based on the Human Universal Load Ca...

This is a video of South African sprinter and Olympic hopeful, Oscar Pistorius--a double amputee fitted with curved, carbon-fiber prosthet...

I love this evolving technology using bionics to help the paralyzed stand and walk again.  This technology for exoskeleton suits with mo...

Deus Ex is an action role-playing game (RPG) and first person shooter game. It sold more than a million copies as of 2009 and was named ...

Check out this video of Rex, The Robotic Exoskeleton. An incredible advance for the disabled in providing better mobility. Light years ahe...

Remember the TV shows The Bionic Man and Woman? These folks had implants that gave them amazing super-human strength, speed, hearing, and v...