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Re-wiring the Body
At the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, physicians earlier this year laid the foundation for such technology when they strapped Jesse Sullivan's new arm and shoulder into place. Sullivan, a Tennessee power company lineman whose arms were amputated after he was electrocuted on the job, suddenly had an artificial limb that allowed him to rotate his wrist and upper arm, bend his elbow, grip with his hand, and, incredibly, feel. And like Luke Skywalker, Sullivan required just a few minutes of learning to adjust to the new limb, mainly because it used a neural wiring scheme similar to nature's own.