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Article: Health Zone: Technology: Body shop: BIONIC MAN'S A FACT OF LIFE.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Byline: JANE LANGSTON
WE have the technology ... we can rebuild you.
When The Six Million Dollar Man hit our TV screens in the 1970s, bionic man was all in the realms of science fiction.
Now, thanks to the miracles of modern science, the technology behind Steve Austin, the man who could run faster than a car, is no longer a distant fantasy.
Bionic ear implants are already widespread, work is progressing on the development of a bionic eye and children have been fitted with bionic hands, thanks to new methods of connecting live cells to ...