http://futurismic.com/2009/06/24/the-mind-re-maps-the-body-learning-to-live-with-your-cybernetic-centaur-legs/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://futurismic.com/2009/06/24/the-mind-re-maps-the-body-learning-to-live-with-your-cybernetic-centaur-legs/comment-page-1/#comment-34791 Schmidt Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:50 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7950#comment-34791 Those centaur (or Satyr) legs look very cool. I wonder if, in the future, amputees will be able to choose non-human-looking replacements for their lost limbs. Those centaur (or Satyr) legs look very cool. I wonder if, in the future, amputees will be able to choose non-human-looking replacements for their lost limbs.

]]> http://futurismic.com/2009/06/24/the-mind-re-maps-the-body-learning-to-live-with-your-cybernetic-centaur-legs/comment-page-1/#comment-34787 Ed Hunt Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:13:40 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7950#comment-34787 Very cool. I'd always wondered how my brain would need to be expanded to control my extra pair of arms and my prehensile tail. BTW: Centaurs have four legs. This looks more like a faun or Satyr - but I want a pair just the same! Very cool. I’d always wondered how my brain would need to be expanded to control my extra pair of arms and my prehensile tail. BTW: Centaurs have four legs. This looks more like a faun or Satyr – but I want a pair just the same!

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